Glomar
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Glomar may refer to:
- The former Global Marine Inc., a drilling contractor, which merged with Santa Fe International Corporation to form GlobalSantaFe CorporationGlobalSantaFe CorporationGlobalSantaFe Corporation, which traded on the NYSE as GSF was an offshore oil and gas drilling contractor, which owned or operating a fleet of 59 marine drilling rigs...
, which in turn merged with rival TransoceanTransoceanTransocean Ltd. is one of the world's largest offshore drilling contractors. The company rents floating mobile drill rigs, along with the equipment and personnel for operations, to oil and gas companies at an average daily rate of US$282,700...
in 2007. - Glomar ChallengerGlomar ChallengerThe 120m long Glomar Challenger was a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies. It was designed by Global Marine Inc...
, the drillshipDrillshipA drillship is a maritime vessel that has been fitted with drilling apparatus. It is most often used for exploratory offshore drilling of new oil or gas wells in deep water or for scientific drilling. The drillship can also be used as a platform to carry out well maintenance or completion work such...
used for the Deep Sea Drilling ProgramDeep Sea Drilling ProgramThe Deep Sea Drilling Project was an ocean drilling project operated from 1968 to 1983. The program was considered to be successful as evidenced by the data and publications that have resulted from it and is now supported by Texas A&M University, although for the years of its operations these were...
. - USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193)USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193)GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Glomar Explorer , is a deep-sea drillship platform initially built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division secret operation Project Azorian to recover the sunken Soviet submarine, K-129, lost in April 1968.The cultural impact of...
- The Glomar Explorer was a large salvage vessel built by the CIA for Project JenniferProject Jennifer"AZORIAN" was the code name for a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in the summer of 1974, using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer...
— an attempted salvaging of a sunken SovietSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
nuclear submarineNuclear submarineA nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor . The performance advantages of nuclear submarines over "conventional" submarines are considerable: nuclear propulsion, being completely independent of air, frees the submarine from the need to surface frequently, as is necessary for...
. The CIA had chosen to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of the project, and this claim to secrecySecrecySecrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups, perhaps while sharing it with other individuals...
based on national securityNational securityNational security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
survived a United States Supreme Court challenge. - The term "Glomar responseGlomar responseIn United States law, the term Glomar response refers to a "neither confirm nor deny" response to Freedom of Information Act requests. There are two instances in which Glomarization has been used...
" has since been used in United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
law to refer to a "neither confirm nor deny" response by agents of national security as valid, given that the circumstances truly require it, and do not conflict with Freedom of Information Act precedent.