Sea-floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo200

Short description

MARUM-MeBo200 is the second generation of the sea floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo developed by MARUM. It is a robotic drill that is deployed on the sea bed and remotely controlled from the vessel in order to sample the sea bed by rotary core drilling. MARUM-MeBo200 was developed by MARUM together with Firma Bauer Maschinen GmbH. This project is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. In October 2014 the system was successfully tested in the North Sea from the new research vessel RV SONNE. MeBo200 can conduct core drillings down to 200 m below sea floor. Next to the enhancement of storage capacity within the magazines the improvement of maintenance possibilities as well as an increase in deployment depth to more than 2500 m were major goals of the development. Since 2016 it is successfully in operation for scientific research expeditions.

MeBo200 is mounted in a frame, that can be transported as 20' container. An optimized used of the space within the frame allowed an increase of stroke length from 2.5 (MeBo70) to 3.5 m. On top of that the loading capacity of the magazines was increased allowing much deeper core drilling operation compared to MeBo70

General data

Transportation	7 x 20" ISO Container
Gross weight	110 t
Footprint	space for 4 x 20' Container 18 x 4,7 m for Launch and Recovery System with winch container Laboratory for serving logging tools Storage room for liner and spare parts
Crew	9-10 Operator/Technicians