Mud Cutting Skips

Cutting skips are the primary method of transporting waste drilling fluid and cuttings to shore around the world. Cutting skips were developed as an easy method of collecting and transporting cuttings given the weight restrictions of offshore cranes on earlier drilling rigs. Cutting skips are typically placed near the solids control equipment, where cuttings can be moved relatively short distances and collected in the box. When a Cutting boxes gets full, it is removed and an empty Cutting boxes is shuffled into position. When a sufficient number of full Cutting skips are ready, they are backloaded onto a workboat and returned to shore. Empty Cutting skips from the dock facility replace the returned cutting skips.

The mud skip container, also known as the offshore mud skip, drilling cuttings box or drilling cutting skip , is mainly used for the offshore drilling platform to cooperate with the drilling cuttings recovery equipment on the site for drilling cuttings recovery, storage, transfer.

HL Petroleum can customize and produce mud skip container with effective capacity of 2-4m³ ( 6-10 Ton ). Mud skip for offshore drilling also have DNV2.7-1, CCS certification, weld inspection reports, etc.

Such mud skips are usually designed with 11000kg maximum loading weight. The size can be designed as 2400x1400x1700mm, or 2200x1500x1600mm. Depends on client’s preference and practical demand there are many different designs available.

Mud skips are fabricated with forklift pocket for convenient handling. Also the lifting rings for easy move by helicopter or crane. Kindly suggest certifying the skips under marine standard. Such as CCS, DNV, BS, or BV, RL and so on

More detail on cuttings boxes

Many users prefer the cuttings boxes since the convenient handling feature. It’s rectangular shape with a special design on top and bottom for easy piling up. Under DNV or equivalent test, they will tell us the most layers we can pile them up.

The doors or hatches on top are sealed with special rubber and the glue. It will be rather tight no matter how you lift it or lay down it, maybe face falling off. However, there won’t be any leakage at all.

The colors of cuttings box, we can paint it with blue, yellow, orange, red, and so on. It is a custom built feature. Depending on the clients’ preference.