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Modular Hydro Energy Systems
Published in Yatish T. Shah, Modular Systems for Energy and Fuel Recovery and Conversion, 2019
SINN Power’s WEC modules can be customized to generate electricity at almost any site that is exposed to ocean waves. Once installed, the modules require little maintenance—and of course, no risky fuel transports at all. The SINN Power’s wave energy modules are highly versatile and can supply electricity to Offshore structures such as oil rigs and pumping stations.Offshore wind turbines.Aquacultures and fish farms.Offshore and marine research stations.Ports and marinas.
Case Studies: IOC & OSC Relationship in Selected Sectors
Published in Basak Beyazay-Odemis, The Nature of the Firm in the Oil Industry, 2015
Non-oil-industry observers often take the ability to drill a hole down a thousand metres with a drilling rig3 for granted. Advances in equipment and techniques, such as rotary drilling, have improved the success rates in reaching targets. Most industry observers recognize that a land drilling rig is a relatively simple and commoditized machine. However drilling in the sea is still very complicated, mainly due to the lack of stability (for floaters), the corrosive environment and difficult support logistics. Offshore fields require complex structures to drill a well to explore as well as to produce oil. The shape of these complex structures (offshore rigs and platforms) is determined largely by the depth of water and can be in the form either of jack-ups or floaters4 (drillships and semi-submersibles) (Hermann et al. 2010). In terms of numbers, jack-up rigs drill most offshore wells, semi-submersibles come second and drillships come in third (Diamond Offshore 2012). Different types of oil rigs involve drillships, semisubmersibles, jack-ups, submersibles and land rigs (Schlumberger 2012c). Drilling units are designed and constructed by building yards and owned by specialized companies (contract drillers).5
Doing thinking: revisiting computing with artistic research and technofeminism
Published in Digital Creativity, 2019
Loren Britton, Goda Klumbyte, Claude Draude
Apart from conducting these hands-on experiments, we also drew on artistic work of other collaborators in the project in order to re-think computing through artistic practice. Crucial for our understanding of material speculation was the work of CF+ network member and collaborator, artist and computer game designer Isabel Paehr. Her work with Jasper Meiners on the game ‘Paradigm Shell’ (2019),14 which she presented during one of the lab meetings, is particularly of interest here. The game prototype asks what would happen if the rules at play in climate change provoked shifts in playing. Recalculating the relations between players and virtual matter requires development of speculative game mechanics, which are explored in Paradigm Shell. The game space is set on an oil rig, where petroleum comes into play as a transformative, vibrant, time-condensing form of matter. This game architecture is not only built on speculation (what is the relation between time–space-plastic? How can plastic be turned back into oil?) but also encourages reflection through physical engagement with the game that triggers alternative ways of perceiving environment and systemic entanglements (for example, from the point of view of a piece of plastic floating in the ocean). Drawing on the idea of enacting alternative perspectives, we encouraged participants of the lab meeting to think spatially about which kind of perspectival reconfigurations might be missing through an exercise that we termed ‘Missing Geometries’ (Figure 5). This resulted in a series of geometrically rendered intersectional positions, from which new perspectives could be generated, such as: security studies-critical race studies-computing-feminist ethics; disability studies-postcolonialism-ecocriticism-technology design; scoring/classification systems-speculation-artistic research; gaming-innovation-military ← genealogy of objects ← fields of applications ← feminist analysis.