Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
ROV at work in an underwater oil and gas field. The ROV is using a torque wrench to adjust a valve on a subsea structure.. A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) [citation needed] or remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is a free-swimming submersible craft used to perform underwater observation, inspection and physical tasks such as valve operations, hydraulic functions and other general ...
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. They have good ship stability and seakeeping, better than drillships.
Drill line. Crown block. Derrick. Racking Board (Sometimes referred to as the Monkey Board) Stand (of drill pipe) Setback (floor) Swivel (On newer rigs this may be replaced by a top drive) Kelly drive. Rotary table.