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The Sea Quest was a semi-submersible drilling rig.She discovered the UK's first North Sea oil on 14 September 1969 in the Arbroath Field. [1] [2] She also discovered the first giant oil field named Forties on 7 October 1970.
BP's semi-submersible drilling rig Sea Quest hit crude oil at 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in the Upper Tertiary sandstone. [ 2 ] Four appraisal wells drilled during 1971–1972 revealed a large reservoir at a depth of about 7,000 feet (2,100 m) and closure of 155 m. [ 3 ]
seaQuest, SeaQuest, Sea Quest, or Seaquest may also refer to: SeaQuest (aquariums), a U.S. chain of retail-mall-based aquaria. seaQuest DSV, a 1994/1995 game based on the TV series; Sea Quest (drilling rig), a semi-submersible oil platform; Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest, a fixed target experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Ranger began drilling test wells in the fall of 1972 in the various blocks it had been awarded. In early January 1974 the semi-submersible drilling rig Sea Quest discovered oil in the Ranger-BP block 3/8 at a depth of 10,572 feet. [6] Shortly thereafter, the Burmah-Chevron group discovered oil in the adjoining block, 3/3, indicating a major field.
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.
The most recent data shows U.S. oil production has reached 13.5 million barrels a day, up 55% from 2014. At the same time, the number of U.S. drilling rigs has plunged to 586 from more than 1,900 ...
An oil rig supervisor who earned more than $200,000 a year working for Houston-based Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc is entitled to overtime pay, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a ...
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