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    An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process...
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  • Petronius is a deepwater compliant tower oil platform built from 1997 to 2000 and operated by Chevron in the Gulf of Mexico, 210 km (130.5 mi) southeast...
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    oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2,450 meters (8,040 feet) operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico. The platform is...
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    tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Installed in 1988, the total weight of the platform was 77,000 tons, of which the steel...
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    Magnolia is an offshore oil drilling and production Extended Tension Leg Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the world's deepest ETLP, reaching 1,432 m...
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  • a list of the tallest oil platforms over 300 m (984 ft) in height. The current highest oil platform is the Petronius platform operated by Chevron Corporation...
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    Canada, in 80 m of water.: 35–36  The production platform Hibernia is the world's largest oil platform (by mass) and consists of a 37,000 t (41,000 short...
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  • Baldpate is a 579.7 metres (1,902 ft) offshore compliant tower oil platform near the coast of Louisiana, owned and operated by Hess Corporation. It was...
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    Mars is a permanent offshore drilling and production tension-leg oil platform (TLP) operating in Mississippi Canyon blocks 762, 763, 806, 807, 850 and...
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    Devils Tower is a deep-water oil and gas production Spar oil platform located in the Gulf of Mexico and named after Devils Tower National Monument. Devils...
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    28, 1969, 6 miles (10 km) from the coast on Union Oil's Platform A in the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field. Within a ten-day period, an estimated 80,000...
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  • film Platform (2000 film), a 2000 film by Jia Zhangke Platform (art group), an interdisciplinary art group that researches the oil industry Platform (Australian...
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  • risers and two riser platforms standing in 70 m (230 ft) water depth and linked by a bridge. Draupner E is the first major oil platform using jacket-type...
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    semi-submersible drilling rig that, on 27 March 1980, capsized in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, killing 123 people. The capsize was the worst disaster...
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    using dynamic positioning. Around 1891, the first submerged oil wells were drilled from platforms built on piles in the fresh waters of the Grand Lake St...
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    The Oil Platforms case (formally, Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) ICJ 4) is a public international law case decided...
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    Accidental spills from oil platforms nowadays account for approximately 3% of oil spills in the oceans. Prominent offshore oil platform spills typically occurred...
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    mostly recovered from oil drilling. Seismic surveys and other methods are used to locate oil reservoirs. Oil rigs and oil platforms are used to drill long...
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    in the aftermath of a blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, the United States federal government estimated the total discharge at...
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    semi-submersible platform is a specialised marine vessel used in offshore roles including as offshore drilling rigs, safety vessels, oil production platforms, and...
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    state the platform had historically been used for deeper wells, including the deepest underwater gas and oil well. The $560 million platform was built...
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  • floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling Oil well, a boring from which oil is extracted This article...
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    United States. California oil and gas industry Offshore oil and gas in the United States Offshore oil drilling Oil platform Rigs-to-Reefs US offshore...
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  • Ninian Central Platform is an oil platform in the North Sea. When constructed in Loch Kishorn, Scotland in 1978 the 600,000 tonne platform was the world's...
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    of 18 April, and ultimately destroyed, damaged, or sank two Iranian oil platforms, three warships, several armed boats, and two fighter jets. U.S. losses...
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    crude oil production A6/B4, gas field 300 km in the North Sea, gas transport via the NOGAT pipeline Schwedeneck-See oil field (Baltic Sea) A6-A platform No...
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    500. In 2021, the company's total production was 388 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (2,370,000 GJ) per day, of which 59% was in the United States...
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    A platform supply vessel (PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil and gas platforms and other offshore installations. They typically range...
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  • of the destruction of a Taylor Energy oil platform during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. It is the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. It was first brought...
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    marine structure, used for floating oil/gas platforms. Named after navigation channel Spar buoys, spar platforms were developed as an extreme deepwater...
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