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The first semi-submersible floating production platform was the Argyll FPF converted from the Transworld 58 drilling semi-submersible in 1975 for the Hamilton Brothers North Sea Argyll oil field. As the oil industry progressed into deeper water and harsh environments, purpose-built production semi-submersible platforms were designed.
Petrobras 36 (P-36) was a floating semi-submersible oil platform. Prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001, it was the largest in the world. [3] It was owned by Petrobras, a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. [4] The cost of the platform was US$350 million (currently US$602 million). [5]
Semi-submersible platform, which is typically transported to a location where it is placed in service Oil platform , a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, and process petroleum and natural gas, in deeper water (more than 1,500 metres (4,900 ft)), the semisubmersibles or drillships are maintained at the ...
Semi-Submersible platforms have pontoons and columns, typically two parallel spaced apart pontoons with buoyant columns upstanding from those pontoons to support a deck. Some of the semi-submersible vessels only have a single caisson, or column, usually denoted as a buoy while others utilize three or more columns extended upwardly from buoyant ...
Pages in category "Oil platforms" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. ... Semi-submersible platform; Spar (platform) Spudcan; T. List of ...
Atlantis PQ is a BP and BHP joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on permanent location over the Green Canyon Atlantis Oil Field in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 190 mi (310 km) south of New Orleans. The "PQ" identifies the platform as being a production facility with crew quarters. [2]
These include bottom founded drilling rigs (jackup barges and swamp barges), combined drilling and production facilities either bottom founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) including semi-submersibles or drillships. These are capable of operating in water depths up to 3,000 metres (9,800 ft).
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