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This is a list of the tallest oil platforms over 300 m (984 ft) in height. The current highest oil platform is the Petronius platform operated by Chevron Corporation and Marathon Oil in the Gulf of Mexico , 210 km southeast of New Orleans, United States.
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.
Operated by Shell, with JV partners Chevron (37.5%) and BP (27.5%), the spar acts as a hub for and enables development of three fields Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip. The oil and gas fields beneath the platform lie in a geological formation holding resources estimated at 3–15 billion barrels of oil equivalent according to a report by the BSEE, formerly known as the MMS.
Larger TLPs will normally have a full drilling rig on the platform with which to drill and intervene on the wells. The smaller TLPs may have a workover rig, or with most recent TLPs, production wellheads located at remote drillcentres subsea. The deepest (E)TLPs measured from the sea floor to the surface are: [3] 5,185 ft (1,580 m) Big Foot ETLP
Casing head (#27) is a large metal flange welded or screwed onto the top of the conductor pipe (also known as drive-pipe) or the casing and is used to bolt the surface equipment such as the blowout preventers (for well drilling) or the Christmas tree (oil well) (for well production).
The 33,000 tonnes (36,000 short tons) rig was converted by Davie Industry, Lévis, Canada to the world's largest oil production platform. P-36 was operating for Petrobras on the Roncador Oil Field , 130 kilometres (80 mi) off the Brazilian coast, producing about 84,000 barrels (13,400 m 3 ) of crude per day.
Magnolia oil platform. Magnolia is an offshore oil drilling and production Extended Tension Leg Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the world's deepest ETLP, reaching 1,432 m (4,698 ft), beating the Marco Polo TLP by 120 m (390 ft). [1] In March 2018, Big Foot ETLP took over this claim in 1,580 m (5,180 ft).
Scarabeo 9 is one of the largest offshore drilling rigs in the world. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is the first (and as of 2012 the only) Frigstad Engineering developed Frigstad D90 design rig ever built. [ 5 ] The rig is able to operate at the water depth up to 11,811 feet (3,600 m), which is classified by the oil industry as "ultra-deepwater", and its ...