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2. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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   Offshore oil well drilling platform, Continental Oil Co., Gulf of Mexico, 1955. Around 1891, the first submerged oil wells were drilled from platforms built on piles in the fresh waters of the Grand Lake St. Marys in Ohio. The wells were developed by small local companies such as Bryson, Riley Oil, German-American and Banker's Oil. [2]

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

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   In 2018, New Jersey enacted a law to ban oil and gas drilling in state waters and prohibit any constructions of oil and gas drilling infrastructure and facilities including pipelines and docks in New Jersey and its waters. This is an effort to cut off infrastructure to make it harder to drill in federal waters. [29]

4. List of components of oil drilling rigs - Wikipedia

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   Offshore drilling rigs have similar elements, but are configured with a number of different drilling systems to suit drilling in the marine environment. The equipment associated with a rig is to some extent dependent on the type of rig but typically includes at least some of the items listed below.

5. Suriname prepares for its first offshore oil project that is ...

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   Suriname for the first time in its history will see offshore oil drilling in its waters after French company TotalEnergies on Wednesday announced a $9 billion project expected to boost the ...

6. Biden administration approves more offshore drilling in bid ...

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   But even three drilling sales will frustrate climate advocates, who have pressed the administration to take a tougher line on offshore drilling and wanted no new oil and gas lease sales approved.

7. 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.

8. Offshore vs. Onshore Drilling: Which Is a Better Investment?

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   But drilling on land and drilling offshore provide two different return-on-value calculations and time horizons. An onshore driller can turn on and off new drilling with the price of oil or ...

9. 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.