THE OCEAN BEN LANCER The dynamically positioned drillship was built at the Scott' Shipbuilding Company in Greenock on the Clyde. The naming ceremony took place in 1976. The 136m long ship was capable of drilling in water depths of 1000m in waves up to 5m. It was of a IHC Holland Pelican design. It was contracted to work for Chevron. She was renamed SC LANCER in 1990 Good old BJ type V rackers sticking out the side of the Derrick Been there a couple of times. Food was great, every day by 21:00 there was a pizza festival BY CONTRACT. But also experienced a total blackout due an engine room flood and drifted a few miles away causing the LMRP to disconect from the BOP, and creating a huge trench on the seabed.
Spain in the Med. Clean and modern then of course. Was on there back in 1977/8/9. Did my first Atlantic Crossing on here, nearly got sank after struck by massive waves on the Port side and tilted over and never thought it was coming back, why they were attempting to turn ship around to go back into weather as we were getting further away from intended destination. Buckled port side deck, gratings, shaleshaker bulkhead which you can see in picture. Frightening. However great times working and travelling. Keep shipbuilding on the great Clyde
Worked with it in Labrador in '80's. Oldies but goldies.LoL worked with this drillship as wellsite geologist in the mid 1970s offshore
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