what is an oil or gas platform?
isn’t that not a good thing? i mean are they drilling for oil in the ocean? and iif so how do they make sure that it doesn’t leak in the water?
isn’t that not a good thing? i mean are they drilling for oil in the ocean? and iif so how do they make sure that it doesn’t leak in the water?
December 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
An oil platform is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be attached to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or be floating.
Generally, oil platforms are located on the continental shelf, though as technology improves, drilling and production in deeper waters becomes both feasible and profitable. A typical platform may have around thirty wellheads located on the platform and directional drilling allows reservoirs to be accessed at both different depths and at remote positions up to 5 miles (8 kilometres) from the platform. Many platforms also have remote wellheads attached by umbilical connections, these may be single wells or a manifold centre for multiple wells.
read more here –> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_platform
December 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Good question, But answer is very diffcult.