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    1. Drilling & Completion

    Fugro sets seafloor drill water depth record

    April 23, 2015
    Fugro has set a seafloor drill water depth record of 2,923 m (9,589 ft) while completing a combined sampling and piezocone penetration testing borehole to 62 m (203 ft) below the seafloor.  
    Fugro Seafloor Drill I
    Fugro Seafloor Drill I

    Offshore staff

    HOUSTON –Fugro has set a seafloor drill water depth record of 2,923 m (9,589 ft) while completing a combined sampling and piezocone penetration testing borehole to 62 m (203 ft) below the seafloor.

    The record was set using Fugro's Seafloor Drill I on a single deployment in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico.

    4/23/15