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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).
Drilling rigs (3 C, 21 P) O. Oil platform disasters (2 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Oil platforms" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
In 2011, the company acquired Aker Drilling, which owned 4 harsh environment rigs used for drilling near Norway. [20] In 2012, the company sold 38 shallow water rigs and narrowed its focus on high-specification deepwater rigs. [21] In 2013, the company was added to the S&P 500 index. [22]
In 1958, drilling contracts with the seven largest U.S. oil producers included wells 40 miles (64 km) north of Isabela, Cuba, near the island Cay Sal. In 1959 Bush bought control of Zapata Off-Shore, funded with $800,000, [ 13 ] splitting Zapata Corporation into two independent companies with the Liedtkes still in control of Zapata Petroleum.
Walter Oil & Gas Corporation (50.5%) 1186 30,000 Jacket height 366 m (1,200 ft) [16] Lena Platform [17] [4] 396 1,300 1983 Compliant tower, Guyed United States Gulf of Mexico Brown & Root Exxon: 1014 24,000 or 27,000 Jacket height 328.5 m (1,078 ft) Cognac Platform [18] 385.5 1,265 1977 Truss tower United States Gulf of Mexico McDermott Engineering
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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.
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) is a deepwater port in the Gulf of Mexico 29 kilometers (18 nautical miles) [1] off the coast of Louisiana near the town of Port Fourchon. LOOP provides tanker offloading and temporary storage services for crude oil transported on some of the largest tankers in the world.