Waste management - Transport of cuttings to shore for disposal
The option of transporting drill cuttings from the rig has a number of attractions. Unlike the use of WBM or CRI, the skip and ship option can in principle be applied to any drilling operation from platform or MDU.
Rig upgrades required to allow this containment option are minimal and may be implemented quickly and cheaply. Since the rig site equipment is simple and reliable, equipment failure is less likely than for CRI. A number of process technologies have been developed for treating the cuttings which . . .