After
graduating from The University of Oklahoma as a Civil Engineer in 1954,
Dillard Hammett joined Shell. For the next 45 years, Hammett led projects
that developed dynamic stationing and floating production technology
involving ultra deepwater activities. These projects involved working
safely and efficiently under harsh sea conditions, with unstable seabeds
and in deepwater. Hammett pioneered techniques to drill and produce in ice
and iceberg-covered oceans. Among his many innovations were structures to
withstand the Cook Inlet ice, current and tides. He also invented numerous
improvements to drillships and semisubmersibles, floating production
platforms and ocean floor scientific coring and sampling using dynamic
station-keeping.
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After
graduating from The University of Oklahoma as a Civil Engineer in 1954,
Dillard Hammett joined Shell. For the next 45 years, Hammett led projects
that developed dynamic stationing and floating production technology
involving ultra deepwater activities. These projects involved working
safely and efficiently under harsh sea conditions, with unstable seabeds
and in deepwater. Hammett pioneered techniques to drill and produce in ice
and iceberg-covered oceans. Among his many innovations were structures to
withstand the Cook Inlet ice, current and tides. He also invented numerous
improvements to drillships and semisubmersibles, floating production
platforms and ocean floor scientific coring and sampling using dynamic
station-keeping.
