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2. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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   Offshore drilling. Holstein, an oil drilling platform at Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles from land. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the ...

3. Trolling (fishing) - Wikipedia

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   In marine environments, trolling is used in big-game fishing to catch large offshore or open-water species such as tuna and marlin. Saltwater anglers also troll for inshore species such as bluefish, kingfish and various jacks. [19] Rock fishermen can use an umbrella rig as a method of trolling without using a boat. Typically, an umbrella rig ...

4. Troll A platform - Wikipedia

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   Troll A platform. Coordinates: 60°40′N 3°40′E. A view from the South East of Troll A Platform. The Troll A platform is a Condeep gravity-based structure offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off the west coast of Norway. Built from reinforced concrete, as of 2014, it was the tallest structure that has ever been moved to ...

5. Perdido (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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   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. The Perdido spar began production in 2010 and its ...

6. 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.

7. Snubbing - Wikipedia

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   Snubbing. 340k units are designed to perform live and dead well interventions on both land & offshore. Snubbing is a type of heavy well intervention performed on oil and gas wells. It involves running the BHA on a pipe string using a hydraulic workover rig. Unlike wireline or coiled tubing, the pipe is not spooled off a drum but made up and ...