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and time required to construct a wood platform to support all or a few of the offshore-type rig. The very first MODU The very first genuinely offshore MODU was the Mr. Charlie, developed and constructed from scratch by Ocean Drilling and Expedition Co.(ODECO), headed by its innovator and president,"Doc "Alden J. Laborde. The Mr. Charlie (Fig. 2)was a purpose-built submersible barge built particularly to drift on its lower hull to location and, in a sequence of flooding the stern down, wound up resting on the bottom to begin drilling operations. Charlie went to its very first area in June 1954, Life publication discussed the unique originality to check out for oil and gas offshore. The Mr. Charlie, ranked for 40-ft water depth, set the tone for how most MODUs were integrated in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Normally, an inventor secured financiers, in this case Murphy Oil, and then found a customer with an agreement to drill for, in this case Shell Oil, allowing bank loans to be gotten to build the unit. Rigs were set up on surplus The second world war ship hulls modified to drill in a drifting position compared with sitting a submersible barge on the ocean bottom, as performed in the GOM. Oil companies formed collaborations or proceeded separately, but MODUs were not developed and constructed by contract drilling business in California. Prior to the leasing of oil and gas rights in 1955, oil business cored with small rigs cantilevered over the side midship of old World War II barges.  This Website  did not have well-control devices or the capability to run a casing program. They might only drill to a designated core depth with the understanding that if they drilled into any oil and/or gas sands, they would stop, set a cement plug, and pull out of the core hole. Others followed quickly, with all of them concerned about the marine environment and technology to permit drilling in rough weather. In 1956, the CUSS 1 was developed from another World War II barge. The system, constructed by the CUSS group(Continental, Union, Shell, and Superior Oil), was 260 feet long and had a 48-ft beam. The original designers had no examples or experiences to go by, so novelty and innovation were the course of the day: Torque converters on the drawworks were.