Oil platform
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| - | ''[[Sea State]]'' (2020/21) is a book by [[Tabitha Lasley]] | ||
| - | Blurb: | + | An '''oil platform''', '''offshore platform''', or '''offshore drilling rig''' is a large structure with facilities for [[well drilling]] to explore, extract, store, and process [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms will also contain facilities to accommodate their workforce. Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the [[continental shelf]], though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters, and inland seas. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be [[fixed Platform|fixed]] to the ocean floor, consist of an [[artificial island]], or [[floating oil production system|float]]. |
| - | In her mid-30s and sprung out of a terrible relationship, Tabitha quit her job at a [[women’s magazine]], left London and put her savings into a six-month lease on a flat in a dodgy neighbourhood in [[Aberdeen]] – she was going to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about [[oil rig]]s and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? “I wanted to see what men were like, with no women around.” | + | ==See also== |
| - | + | * [[List of tallest oil platforms]] | |
| - | ''Sea State'' is, on the one hand, a portrait of an overlooked industry, and a fascinating subculture in its own right: ‘offshore’ is a way of life for generations of British workers, primarily [[working class]] men. Offshore is also a potent metaphor for a lot of things we might rather keep at bay – class, [[masculinity]], the [[North-South divide]], the [[transactional nature of desire]], the terrible slipperiness of the ladder that could lead us towards (or away from) real security, just out of reach. | + | * [[Accommodation platform]] |
| - | + | * [[Chukchi Cap]] | |
| - | And ''Sea State'' is, too, the story of a journalist whose distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, when she’s not researching the book, Tabitha takes pills and dances with a forgotten kind of abandon – reliving her Merseyside youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and increasingly precarious, she dives in deep. The relationship, reckless and explosive, lays them both bare. | + | * [[Conductor support system]] |
| + | * [[Deep sea mining]] | ||
| + | * [[Deepwater drilling]] | ||
| + | * [[Drillship]] | ||
| + | * [[North Sea oil]] | ||
| + | * [[Offshore geotechnical engineering]] | ||
| + | * [[Offshore oil and gas in the United States]] | ||
| + | * [[Oil drilling]] | ||
| + | * [[Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf]] | ||
| + | * [[SAR201]] | ||
| + | * [[Shallow water drilling]] | ||
| + | * [[Submarine pipeline]] | ||
| + | * [[TEMPSC]] | ||
| + | * [[Texas Towers]] | ||
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An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, and process petroleum and natural gas that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms will also contain facilities to accommodate their workforce. Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf, though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters, and inland seas. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or float.
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See also
- List of tallest oil platforms
- Accommodation platform
- Chukchi Cap
- Conductor support system
- Deep sea mining
- Deepwater drilling
- Drillship
- North Sea oil
- Offshore geotechnical engineering
- Offshore oil and gas in the United States
- Oil drilling
- Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf
- SAR201
- Shallow water drilling
- Submarine pipeline
- TEMPSC
- Texas Towers
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