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2. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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   Worker on an offshore drilling rig. In 1945, concern for American control of its offshore oil reserves caused President Harry Truman to issue an Executive Order unilaterally extending American territory to the edge of its continental shelf, an act that effectively ended the 3-mile limit "freedom of the seas" regime. [8]

3. 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.

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

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   Oil companies drilled six tests offshore Washington (three in state waters and three in federal waters) and seven tests in federal waters offshore Oregon. The OCS P-0130 well drilled offshore Oregon by Union Oil in 1966 was described as having "potential for commercial gas production", [ 17 ] but none of the wells were completed as producers ...

5. Offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast of the United States

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   The issue of allowing oil and gas exploration offshore Florida became a hotly contested topic in the 2008 US elections. In a column published 5 June 2008, syndicated columnist George Will wrote that a Chinese oil company was then drilling in Cuban waters 60 miles (97 km) from the Florida coast, a claim that was repeated by candidates in favor ...

6. Perdido (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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   The platform has three decks or topsides which support the oil and gas processing units, a drilling rig and living quarters for the workers. The topsides were designed by Alliance Engineering and constructed by Kiewit Offshore in Corpus Christi, Texas. The temperature difference between Finland and Texas posed a challenge in assembling the ...

7. How Biden's offshore drilling ban will — or won't — affect you

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   In Monday’s statement, the president cited the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster — in which a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 workers and causing the largest oil spill in ...

8. Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)

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   The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.

9. Semi-submersible platform - Wikipedia

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   Deepsea Delta semi-submersible drilling rig in the North Sea Comparison of deepwater semi-submersible (left) and drillship (right). A semi-submersible platform is a specialised marine vessel used in offshore roles including as offshore drilling rigs, safety vessels, oil production platforms, and heavy lift cranes.