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  2. Oil platform - Wikipedia

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    Drilling rig; 2. Rock layers; 3. Oil rigs; 4. Oil and natural gas. Oil platform Mittelplate in the N. 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 installation security - Wikipedia

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    Offshore oil rig near Trinidad 1960s - 2000s. Record keeping of security incidents of offshore installations dates back to the 1960s, but it was not until the early 1980s that possible threats were first addressed within academic literature.

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

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    From 1954 to 2023, federal offshore tracts produced 21.4 billion barrels (3.4 × 10 9 m 3) of oil and 195 trillion cubic feet (5.5 × 10 12 m 3) of natural gas. In recent years, the Gulf of Mexico alone accounted for about 15% of all domestic oil production and 2% of domestic natural gas production. Despite some fluctuations due to new deep ...

  5. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (video game) - Wikipedia

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    The weapon can even fire a camera that sticks onto surfaces, allowing Fisher to covertly perform surveillance from a safe area. Flexibility of movement is a focuspoint of Splinter Cell. Fisher can sneak up on enemies from behind to grab them; allowing interrogation, quiet incapacitation, or use as a human shield.

  6. Closed-circuit television - Wikipedia

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    Surveillance cameras on the corner of a building. Surveillance camera in a residential community. Dome camera in Rotterdam central metro station. Closed-circuit television ( CCTV ), also known as video surveillance, [ 1][ 2] is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

  7. Raúl Grijalva - Wikipedia

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    Raúl Manuel Grijalva (/ r ɑː ˈ uː l ɡ r ɪ ˈ h æ l v ə / rah-OOL grih-HAL-və; born February 19, 1948) is an American politician and activist who serves as the United States representative for Arizona's 7th congressional district from 2023 to the present and Arizona's 3rd congressional district from 2003 to 2023.

  8. Oil rig - Wikipedia

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    An oil rig is any kind of apparatus constructed for oil drilling . Kinds of oil rig include: Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling. Drillship, a floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling. Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling. Oil well, a boring from which oil is extracted. Categories: Set index articles.

  9. Deepwater Horizon explosion - Wikipedia

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    Deepwater Horizon was a floating semi-submersible drilling unit —a fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized drilling rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum ...