Drilling Safely in the Arctic Ocean  Liptak Shows Why Full
Automation Could Improve the Safety of Offshore Drilling in and
Transportation from the Arctic Ocean  By Bela Liptak  Share
Print Related RSS  In previous articles, I wrote about the
safety improvements automation could make to the nuclear
industry and to oil/gas drilling by replacing their manual mode
of operation. Here I am continuing that series by showing why
full automation could improve the safety of offshore drilling in
and transportation from the Arctic Ocean.  In the next articles,
I will continue this series by showing what automation can do
for oil sand processing/pipelining.  Here I will not discuss the
environmental damage drilling in the Arctic can cause nor the
risks to the crew due to ice and insufficient winterizing. I
will only focus on what optimized process control could do to
protect the ships from storms and hurricanes by automatically
stabilizing them while drilling.  Drilling ships have to pass
through the Bering strait, which