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An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, ... which is a spar platform in the Gulf of Mexico in a water depth of 2,450 metres (8,040 ft).
Perdido (Spanish for lost) is the deepest floating 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. [1] The platform is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas.
When offshore drilling moved into deeper waters of up to 30 metres (98 ft), fixed platform rigs were built, until demands for drilling equipment was needed in the 100 feet (30 m) to 120 metres (390 ft) depth of the Gulf of Mexico, the first jack-up rigs began appearing from specialized offshore drilling contractors. [11]
Deepsea Delta semi-submersible drilling rig in the North Sea Comparison of deepwater semi-submersible (left) and drillship (right). A semi-submersible platform is a specialised marine vessel used in offshore roles including as offshore drilling rigs, safety vessels, oil production platforms, and heavy lift cranes.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
Water depth is 190 feet (58 m). A fixed platform base under construction on a Louisiana river A fixed platform is a type of offshore platform used for the extraction of petroleum or gas .
Bullwinkle was a 1,736 feet (529 m) [1] 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 jacket comprises 49,375 tons. [2]
A tension-leg platform (TLP) or extended tension leg platform (ETLP) is a vertically moored floating structure normally used for the offshore production of oil or gas, and is particularly suited for water depths greater than 300 metres (about 1000 ft) and less than 1500 metres (about 4900 ft).