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  2. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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    Offshore drilling. Holstein, an oil drilling platform at Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles from land. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the ...

  3. Offshore company - Wikipedia

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    An offshore company may be a reference to: a company, group or sometimes a division thereof, which engages in offshoring business processes. [1] International business companies (IBC) or other types of legal entities, which are incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction, that prohibit local economic activities. [2]

  4. Offshore construction - Wikipedia

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    Offshore construction. Offshore construction is the installation of structures and facilities in a marine environment, usually for the production and transmission of electricity, oil, gas and other resources. It is also called maritime engineering. Construction and pre-commissioning is typically performed as much as possible onshore.

  5. Offshore wind power - Wikipedia

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    Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds offshore than on land, so offshore farms generate more electricity per amount of capacity installed. [ 1 ] Offshore wind farms are also less controversial [ 2 ] than those on land, as ...

  6. Offshore (hydrocarbons) - Wikipedia

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    Offshore (hydrocarbons) " Offshore ", when used in relation to hydrocarbons, refers to operations undertaken at, or under the, sea in association with an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the seabed, or to activities carried out in relation to such a field. Offshore is part of the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry.

  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 ...

  8. Offshore - Wikipedia

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    Offshore construction, construction out at sea. Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well. Offshore hosting, server. Offshore wind power, wind power in a body of water. Offshore geotechnical engineering.

  9. Offshore investment - Wikipedia

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    Offshore investment is the keeping of money in a jurisdiction other than one's country of residence. Offshore jurisdictions are used to pay less tax in many countries by large and small-scale investors. Poorly regulated offshore domiciles have served historically as havens for tax evasion, money laundering, or to conceal or protect illegally ...