Oil platform
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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.
Offshore drilling
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Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formati
Oil platform
…by flow lines and by umbilical connections. These sub-sea facilities may include one or more subsea wells or manifold centres for multiple wells. Offshore drilling presents environmental challenges, both from the produced hydrocarbons and the materials used during the drilling operation. Controversies include the…
Holstein, an oil drilling platform at Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles from land.
Offshore oil well drilling platform, Continental Oil Co., Gulf of Mexico, 1955.
Worker on an offshore drilling rig.
Offshore drilling rig, c. 1968.