He adds that original equipment manufacture products on all current generation BOPs have been found to carry varying levels of infection. “Your BOP may be infected,” Van Gemert says.
The viruses have had deleterious effects on system reliability and integrity to the point of even crippling rig functions.
Van Gemert says he knows of one instance when a floating rig had to enter the shipyard for at least two weeks for repairs due to computer viruses.
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