PICTURE OF THE DAY 2012

Photographs of offshore support vessels in action in many parts of the world. 

This is the drill ship Jasper Explorer, entering shipyard at Algeciras in Spain the other day, and photographed by Martin Penwright. If you think that this craft looks like an early iteration of the drill ship, you would be right. This vessel first went to work as the Havdrill in 1973. Since then it has worked for a number of companies, before Jasper Investments, Neptune Drilling as the Neptune Explorer. After a layup in 2006 it was upgraded, hence the sponsons and the modern derrick.

Photo posted here on 18th April 2012.

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