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The state of Louisiana issued its first offshore oil and gas lease in 1936, and the following year the Pure Oil Company discovered the first Louisiana offshore oil field, the Creole Field, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the shore of Cameron Parish, from a platform built on timber pilings in 10-to-15-foot-deep (3.0 to 4.6 m) water.
The Baldpate Platform was designed and built by Hudson Engineering (now J. Ray McDermott Engineering) in Houston, Texas, and installed by Heerema Marine Contractors. Compliant towers are designed to be more flexible than traditional fixed truss towers such as the Bullwinkle (oil platform). Baldpate in particular is designed to move up to 10 ...
OOE – offshore operation engineer (senior technical authority on an offshore oil platform [citation needed]) OOIP – original oil in place; OOT/S – out of tolerance/straightness; O/P – Over Pull; OPITO – offshore petroleum industry training organization; OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; OPL – operations log
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.
An offshore environment has several implications for geotechnical engineering. These include the following: [1] [4] Ground improvement (on the seabed) and site investigation are expensive. Soil conditions are unusual (e.g. presence of carbonates, shallow gas). Offshore structures are tall, often extending over 100 metres (330 ft) above their ...
Seadrill is an offshore drilling contractor providing worldwide offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry. Its primary business is the ownership and operation of drillships, semi-submersible rigs, and jack-up rigs for operations in shallow to ultra-deep water in both benign and harsh environments. It provides a contract-based ...