Ural Siberian Industrial Company (USIC) – Russian manufacturer of completed drilling rigs for production and exploration drilling. Additionally, USIC manufactures drilling rigs components and units, as well as modernizes drilling equipment.
[pdf] An underground rocket or rocket drill is a device for rapidly drilling holes through soil and rock of varying composition at rates up to 1 metre per second by utilising supersonic jets of hot gases. It was developed by Russian engineer Mikhail Tsiferov in 1948. Proposed uses for the device included drilling shallow holes for mineral exploration, construction, underground gasification of coal, water and methane drainage.
[pdf] On December 18, 2011, the rig, which was under tow during a fierce storm, and sank in the . It was being towed by the icebreaker and the tugboat Neftegaz-55 having just completed an exploration well for off the . The incident happened some 200 kilometres (120 mi) off the coast of island, in waters more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) deep. In terms of operational safety, the towing operation's compliance with be.
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