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Integrated technology solutions provider SKF has supplied bearings for gearboxes designed by Korean diversified solutions company Hyosung Corporation for oil rig drilling platforms.
SKF reports that oil rig drilling platforms are high-cost capital investments and that the designers and end-users of these massive structures require reliability and availability in the components of critical equipment.
Jack-up platforms are designed to float to a location and then have the drilling platform jacked up off the surface of the sea. In this platform, the jacking gearbox is a piece of critical equipment.
Jacking gearboxes provide the power to lower the platform legs onto the sea floor and then lift the significant weight of the drilling platform high enough above the water to
ensure there is no interference to drilling
operations from wave motion, even in stormy conditions.
Hyosung Corporation, of Korea, reports that its jacking gearboxes provide reliability and power. SKF supplied the 23 bearings in each of Hyosung
| Product Model | Inside Diameter | Outside Diameter | Thickness |
| 7918CDB KOYO | 90 | 125 | 36 |
| 7417BDT KOYO | 85 | 210 | 104 |