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Rigs I Have Worked On #12 - Rowan Gorila IV

Rig Name: Rowan Gorilla IV Rig Manager: Rowan Rig Owner: Rowan Competitive Rig: Yes Rig Type: Jackup Jackup Type: Independent Leg Cantilever Rig Design: LeTourneau Class 200-C Gorilla Rated Water Depth: 450 ft Drilling Depth: 30,000 ft

The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus #11

SECTION V. MY SON, that which is born of the crow is the beginning of Art. Behold, how I have obscured matter treated of, by circumlocution, depriving thee of the light. Yet this dissolved, this joined, this nearest and furtherest off I have named to thee. Roast those things, therefore, and boil them in that which comes from the horse's belly for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one days. Then will the Dragon eat his own wings and destroy himself; this being done, let it be put into a fiery furnace, which lute diligently, and observe that none of the spirit may escape. And know that the periods of the earth are in the water, which let it be as long as until thou puttest the same upon it. The matter being thus melted and burned take the brain thereof and triturate it in most sharp vinegar, till it becomes obscured. This done, it lives in the putrefaction, let the dark clouds which were in it before it was killed be converted into its own body. Let this process be re