Arctic Drillship by Aker Solutions

Aker Solutions has developed a concept for an arctic drillship able to operate in sea ice. Scale model tests shows the Aker Solutions Arctic Drillship is performing as expected, or even better. The features which have been introduced are positioning by mooring of a bow mounted turret with mooring disconnection possibility, azi-pod thrusters which helps to assure ice-vaning in case of change in the ice drift direction as well as a new hull shape that breaks the ice while keeping the ice from going under the