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A floating production storage and offloading ( FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons, and for the storage of oil. An FPSO vessel is designed to receive hydrocarbons produced by itself or from nearby platforms or subsea template, process them, and store oil ...
Mad Dog Spar Platform. A spar is a marine structure, used for floating oil/gas platforms. Named after navigation channel Spar buoys, spar platforms were developed as an extreme deepwater alternative to conventional platforms. [ 1] The deep draft design of spars makes them less affected by wind, wave, and currents and allows for both dry tree ...
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.
Offshore concrete structures, or concrete offshore structures, are structures built from reinforced concrete for use in the offshore marine environment. They serve the same purpose as their steel counterparts in oil and gas production and storage. The first concrete oil platform was installed in the North Sea in the Ekofisk oil field in 1973 by ...
A fixed platform is a type of offshore platform used for the extraction of petroleum or gas. These platforms are built on concrete and/or steel legs directly planted onto the seabed, supporting a deck with space for drilling rigs, production facilities and crew quarters. [1] Such platforms are, by virtue of their immobility, designed for very ...
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.
Studies into offshore LNG production have been conducted since the early 1970s, but it was only in the mid-1990s that significant research backed by experimental development began. [ 3 ] In 1997, Mobil developed an FLNG production concept based on a large, square structure 540 by 540 feet (160 m × 160 m) with a moonpool in the center, [ 4 ...
As California attorney general from 2011-2017, Harris won multimillion-dollar settlements with oil majors Chevron and BP over pollution violations from underground fuel storage tanks.