Oil platform
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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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