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  2. Oil platform - Wikipedia

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    The Lun-A (Lunskoye-A) platform, located off the north eastern coast of Sakhalin Island and is a concrete gravity base substructure (CGBS).. An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.

  3. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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    Offshore oil well drilling platform, Continental Oil Co., Gulf of Mexico, 1955. Around 1891, the first submerged oil wells were drilled from platforms built on piles in the fresh waters of the Grand Lake St. Marys in Ohio. The wells were developed by small local companies such as Bryson, Riley Oil, German-American and Banker's Oil. [2]

  4. Offshore oil and gas in California - Wikipedia

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    Nine active offshore drilling and production locations remain in state and municipal waters: one platform and one artificial island in the Santa Barbara Channel, and four artificial islands and three platforms from the offshore portion of the Wilmington Oil Field in San Pedro Bay/Long Beach Harbor. The first artificial offshore island, for ...

  5. Biden order expands Trump’s offshore drilling ban from 2020

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    An oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Getty Images) An energy industry researcher says, despite both praise and criticism of President Joe Biden’s executive order banning offshore ...

  6. Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)

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    A mobile drilling platform in federal water offshore Louisiana, 1957 The state of Louisiana issued its first offshore oil and gas lease in 1936, and the following year the Pure Oil Company discovered the first Louisiana offshore oil field, the Creole Field, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the shore of Cameron Parish , from a platform built on timber ...

  7. Offshore oil and gas in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Offshore drilling has continued from existing platforms in state and federal waters. State offshore seabed in California produced 37,400 barrels (5,950 m 3 ) of oil per day, and federal offshore tracts produced 66,400 barrels (10,560 m 3 ) of oil per day in November 2008.

  8. Biden bans new oil, gas drilling off most US coasts as Trump ...

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    A person fishes with offshore oil and gas platform Esther in the distance on January 5, 2025 in Seal Beach, California. President Joe Biden has permanently banned future offshore oil and gas ...

  9. Perdido (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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    The platform has three decks or topsides which support the oil and gas processing units, a drilling rig and living quarters for the workers. The topsides were designed by Alliance Engineering and constructed by Kiewit Offshore in Corpus Christi, Texas. The temperature difference between Finland and Texas posed a challenge in assembling the ...

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