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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.
Black Gold is a reality-documentary television series that chronicles three oil drilling rigs in Andrews County, Texas, [1] 30 miles northwest of Odessa. It was partly produced by Thom Beers, [2] creator of Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers. [3] The Black Gold theme song was sung by country music star Trace Adkins. The title "Black Gold ...
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
The scale of the technology is frequently smaller than for an oil well, and can typically fit on top of an existing hand-pumped well head. The technology is simple, typically using a parallel-bar double-cam lift driven from a low-power electric motor, although the number of pumpjacks with stroke lengths 54 inches (1.4 m) and longer being used ...
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).
In 2010, Transocean was implicated in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulting from the explosion of one of its oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico that was leased to BP. [19] In 2011, the company acquired Aker Drilling, which owned 4 harsh environment rigs used for drilling near Norway. [20]
Subsalt: Refers to oil prospects that lie below a salt layer. [7] Toolhand: Refers to a third party (down hole services provider) service representative or field service supervisor with "tools" to be run and operated in a well. Toolpusher: The boss of a drilling rig, working under the drilling superintendent or the corporation the rig is ...
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