A drillship is a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. In recent years the vessels have been used in deepwater
Drillship Deep Value Driller docked in Norway
In the foreground, offshore support vessel Toisa Perseus with the fifth-generation deepwater drillship Discoverer Enterprise.
Tower of drillship Deep Value Driller
Drillship Discoverer Enterprise.
An oil platform, also called an oil rig, offshore platform, or oil production platform, is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formation
The Lun-A (Lunskoye-A) platform, located off the north eastern coast of Sakhalin Island and is a concrete gravity base substructure (CGBS).
Offshore lifting operations supporting oil platform infrastructure
Oil wells just offshore at Summerland, California, before 1906.
Tender and offshore oil rig platform near Louisiana.