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  2. List of tallest oil platforms - Wikipedia

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    Amberjack Platform [1] 314+ 1,100+ 1991 Truss tower United States Gulf of Mexico Stone Energy 1100 or 1030 Height is only to water level, likely to be taller than the Cognac Platform. Heritage Platform [20] 326+ 1,075+ 1992 Truss tower South Korea California Hyundai Heavy Industries [21] Exxon 1075 32,420 [22]

  3. Mississippi Canyon - Wikipedia

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    According to "Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2004: America's Expanding Frontier", a report issued by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, of the ten deepwater discoveries in water depths greater than 7,000 ft (2,134 m), three were in the Mississippi Canyon area: Aconcagua project, area/block MC305, 7,379 ft (2,249 m) deep; and Camden Hills project, MC348, 7,530 ft (2,300 ...

  4. Amberjack - Wikipedia

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    Amberjack caught at Palm Beach, Florida in 1910. Lesser amberjacks, Seriola fasciata, have proportionately larger eyes and deeper bodies than greater amberjacks.They are olive green or brownish-black with silver sides, and usually have a dark band extending upward from their eyes.

  5. 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.

  6. List of tallest freestanding steel structures - Wikipedia

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    Oil Rig United States Gulf of Mexico: When built the Bullwinkle platform was the second tallest freestanding structure in the world after the CN Tower. 3 Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) 527.0 1,729 1974 Skyscraper Office, observation, FM/TV-broadcasting United States Chicago: Tallest building in the world 1974–1998 (by structural height).

  7. Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...

  8. Lattice tower - Wikipedia

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    Amberjack Platform [12] Oil Platform, Steel Truss 1991 United States Gulf of Mexico: 314 1,030 height listed is only to water level, likely to be 1,200 ft (370 m) or more in total height 20 Hondo Platform: Oil Platform, Steel Truss 1976 United States Gulf of Mexico: 354.5 1,163 $70 million [19] 21 tie Yangtze River Crossing Jiangyin, North tower

  9. Transocean Marianas - Wikipedia

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    Transocean Marianas was an Earl & Wright Sedco 700 design semi-submersible platform drilling unit capable of operating in harsh environments and water depths up to 7,000 feet (2,100 m) using a 47.6 cm (18.75 in), 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a 53 cm (21 in) outside diameter (OD) marine riser.