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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.^[1]

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Accommodation platform

An accommodation platform is an offshore platform which supports living quarters for offshore personnel. Oil platform and accommodation platform are oil platforms and petroleum production.

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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Aircraft pilot

An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alexander L. Kielland (platform)

Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that, on 27 March 1980, capsized in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, killing 123 people.

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach." ASME is thus an engineering society, a standards organization, a research and development organization, an advocacy organization, a provider of training and education, and a nonprofit organization.

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Amoco

Amoco is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998.

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Anchor handling tug supply vessel

Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels are mainly built to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow them to location, and use them to secure the rigs in place.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.

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Artificial island

An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed through natural processes.

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Artificial reef

An artificial reef (AR) is a human-created freshwater or marine benthic structure.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Baldpate (oil platform)

Baldpate is a offshore compliant tower oil platform near the coast of Louisiana, owned and operated by Hess Corporation.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Baytown, Texas

Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Harris and Chambers counties.

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Benguela-Belize Lobito-Tomboco Platform

Benguela-Belize Lobito-Tomboco is a offshore compliant tower oil platform off the coast of Angola, located in water deep in the lower Congo basin. Oil platform and Benguela-Belize Lobito-Tomboco Platform are oil platforms.

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Bibiheybət

Bibiheybət (also, Bibiheybat, Bibiheibat, Bibi-Heybat, Bibi-Heibat; formerly known as Khanlar, Euwbet, Helenendorf, and Shikhovo) is a municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brent Spar

Brent Spar, known as Brent "E", was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.

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Bullwinkle (oil platform)

Bullwinkle was a tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Buoyancy

Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.

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Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake (Lac Caddo) is a lake and bayou (wetland) on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana.

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Caisson (engineering)

In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (borrowed,, an augmentative of) is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.

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Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Calcasieu Parish (Paroisse de Calcasieu) is a parish located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Campos Basin

The Campos Basin is one of 12 coastal sedimentary basins of Brazil.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carbon capture and storage

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process in which a relatively pure stream of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources is separated, treated and transported to a long-term storage location.

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Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.

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Chukchi Plateau

The Chukchi Plateau or Chukchi Cap is a large subsea formation extending north from the Alaskan margin into the Arctic Ocean.

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Coiled tubing

In the oil and gas industry, coiled tubing refers to a long metal pipe, normally in diameter which is supplied spooled on a large reel. Oil platform and coiled tubing are petroleum production.

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Company man

Company man is a term for the loyal employee of a large corporation that was in use from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.

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Compressor

A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time. Oil platform and Concrete are structural engineering.

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Condeep

Condeep is a make of gravity-based structure for oil platforms invented and patented by engineer Olav Mo in 1972, which were fabricated by Norwegian Contractors in Stavanger, Norway. Oil platform and Condeep are oil platforms.

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ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production.

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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.

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Deep foundation

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

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Deep sea mining

Deep sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed of the deep sea.

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Deepwater drilling

Deepwater drilling, or deep well drilling, is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep sea. Oil platform and Deepwater drilling are petroleum production.

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Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Derrickhand

A derrickhand or derrickman is the person who sits atop the derrick on a drilling rig. Oil platform and derrickhand are petroleum production.

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Devil's Tower (oil platform)

Devils Tower is a deep-water oil and gas production Spar oil platform located in the Gulf of Mexico and named after Devils Tower National Monument.

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Diol

A diol is a chemical compound containing two hydroxyl groups (groups).

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Displacement (ship)

The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight.

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Driller (oil)

The Driller is a team leader in charge during the process of well drilling. Oil platform and Driller (oil) are petroleum production.

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Drilling rig

A drilling rig is an integrated system that drills wells, such as oil or water wells, or holes for piling and other construction purposes, into the earth's subsurface.

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Drillship

A drillship is a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. Oil platform and drillship are drilling technology and offshore engineering.

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Dynamic positioning

Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Oil platform and Dynamic positioning are offshore engineering.

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East-Prinovozemelsky field

The East-Prinovozemelsky field (also referred as Vostochno-Prinovozemelskoye structure – meaning: East of Novaya Zemlya structure) is a gigantic undeveloped Arctic oil and gas field located in the South Kara basin of the continental shelf of Russia, in the South Kara Sea between the Yamal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya island.

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Edward Robert Armstrong

Edward Robert Armstrong (1876–1955) was a Canadian-American engineer and inventor who in 1927 proposed a series of "seadrome" floating airport platforms for airplanes to land on and refuel for transatlantic flights.

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Eni

Eni S.p.A., acronym for and formerly legally known as Ente nazionale idrocarburi (National Hydrocarbons Board), is an Italian multinational energy company headquartered in Rome.

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Exxon Valdez oil spill

The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

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Firth

Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fixed platform

A fixed platform is a type of offshore platform used for the extraction of petroleum or gas. Oil platform and fixed platform are oil platforms and petroleum production.

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Fjord

In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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Floating liquefied natural gas

A floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility is a floating production storage and offloading unit that conducts liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations for developing offshore natural gas resources. Oil platform and floating liquefied natural gas are natural gas technology.

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Floating production storage and offloading

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. Oil platform and floating production storage and offloading are offshore engineering and petroleum production.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Flotel

Flotel, a portmanteau of the terms floating hotel, is the installation of living quarters on top of rafts or semi-submersible platforms. Oil platform and Flotel are petroleum production.

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Freedom of the seas

Freedom of the seas is a principle in the law of the sea.

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Gas flare

A gas flare, alternatively known as a flare stack, flare boom, ground flare, or flare pit, is a gas combustion device used in places such as petroleum refineries, chemical plants and natural gas processing plants, oil or gas extraction sites having oil wells, gas wells, offshore oil and gas rigs and landfills.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.

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Glossary of oilfield jargon

Oilfield terminology refers to the jargon used by those working in fields within and related to the upstream segment of the petroleum industry.

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Goose Creek Oil Field

The Goose Creek Oil Field is a large oil field in Baytown, Texas, on Galveston Bay.

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Grand Lake St. Marys State Park

Grand Lake St.

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Gravity-based structure

A gravity-based structure (GBS) is a support structure held in place by gravity, most notably offshore oil platforms. Oil platform and gravity-based structure are offshore engineering, oil platforms and structural engineering.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast of the United States, also known as the Gulf South or the South Coast, is the coastline along the Southern United States where they meet the Gulf of Mexico.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Gullfaks oil field

Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Equinor.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.

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Helipad

A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.

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Hibernia Gravity Base Structure

The Hibernia Gravity Base Structure is an offshore oil platform on the Hibernia oilfield southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

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Hibernia oil field

Hibernia is an oil field in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately east-southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, in 80 m of water.

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HRG Group

HRG Group, Inc., formerly Harbinger Group Inc. and Zapata Corporation, was a holding company based in Rochester, New York, having originated from an oil company started by a group including future U.S. president George H. W. Bush.

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Hydrocarbon

In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Iceberg

An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Integrated operations

In the petroleum industry, Integrated operations (IO) refers to the integration of people, disciplines, organizations, work processes and information and communication technology to make smarter decisions. Oil platform and Integrated operations are petroleum production.

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Iolair

Iolair (Gaelic for eagle) is a specialised semi-submersible offshore platform designed for BP to support and service oil platforms in the North Sea and served as an emergency support vessel (ESV) in the Forties Oil Field. Oil platform and Iolair are oil platforms.

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Jack (device)

A jack is a mechanical lifting device used to apply great forces or lift heavy loads.

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Jackup rig

A jackup rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising its hull over the surface of the sea. Oil platform and jackup rig are oil platforms.

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Kerr-McGee

The Kerr-McGee Corporation, founded in 1929, was an American energy company involved in oil exploration, production of crude oil, natural gas, perchlorate and uranium mining and milling in various countries.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie (Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally.

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Lake Maracaibo

Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo) is a brackish lake located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida.

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List of oil and gas fields of the Baltic Sea

Over 700 wells have been drilled in the Baltic Sea and about 40 significant accumulations of crude oil and natural gas have been discovered.

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List of tallest buildings and structures

The world's tallest human-made structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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List of tallest oil platforms

This is a list of the tallest oil platforms over in height. Oil platform and list of tallest oil platforms are oil platforms.

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Los Angeles Basin

The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea.

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Maunsell Forts

The Maunsell Forts are towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom.

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Methane emissions

Increasing methane emissions are a major contributor to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, and are responsible for up to one-third of near-term global heating.

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Miami and Erie Canal

The Miami and Erie Canal was a canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

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Minerals Management Service

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) was an agency of the United States Department of the Interior that managed the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS).

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mud engineer

A mud engineer (correctly called a drilling fluids engineer, but most often referred to as the "mud man") works on an oil well or gas well drilling rig, and is responsible for ensuring the properties of the drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, are within designed specifications. Oil platform and mud engineer are drilling technology.

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NASASpaceflight

NASASpaceflight, more often referred to as NSF, is a private aerospace news organization, which operates a YouTube channel, website, and forum, which launched in 2005, as well as various social media channels covering crewed and uncrewed spaceflight and aerospace engineering news.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Nautical mile

A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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North Sea oil

North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.

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Odyssey (launch platform)

LP Odyssey is a self-propelled semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform converted from a mobile drilling rig in 1997.

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Offshore concrete structure

Offshore concrete structures, or concrete offshore structures, are structures built from reinforced concrete for use in the offshore marine environment. Oil platform and offshore concrete structure are oil platforms and structural engineering.

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Offshore drilling

Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. Oil platform and Offshore drilling are drilling technology, natural gas technology and petroleum production.

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Offshore geotechnical engineering

Offshore geotechnical engineering is a sub-field of geotechnical engineering. Oil platform and Offshore geotechnical engineering are offshore engineering.

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Offshore installation manager

The offshore installation manager (OIM) is the most senior manager of an offshore platform operating on the UKCS. Oil platform and offshore installation manager are petroleum production.

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Offshore oil and gas in California

Offshore oil and gas in California provides a significant portion of the state's petroleum production. Oil platform and Offshore oil and gas in California are petroleum production.

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Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)

Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico is a major source of oil and natural gas in the United States.

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Offshore oil and gas in the United States

Offshore oil and gas in the United States provides a large portion of the nation’s oil and gas supply.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

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Oil production plant

An oil production plant is a facility which processes production fluids from oil wells in order to separate out key components and prepare them for export. Oil platform and oil production plant are petroleum production.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Oil well

An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Oil platform and oil well are drilling technology.

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Perdido (oil platform)

Perdido (Spanish for lost) is the deepest floating oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2,450 meters (8,040 feet) operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil platform and Perdido (oil platform) are oil platforms, petroleum production and structural engineering.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Petrobras 36

Petrobras 36 (P-36) was at the time the largest floating semi-submersible oil platform in the world prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Petroleum industry

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.

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Petronius (oil platform)

Petronius is a deepwater compliant tower oil platform built from 1997 to 2000 and operated by Chevron in the Gulf of Mexico, 210 km (130.5 mi) southeast of New Orleans, United States.

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Phillips Petroleum Company

Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors.

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Pier

A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piles or pillars, and provides above-water access to offshore areas.

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Piper Alpha

Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Platform supply vessel

A platform supply vessel (PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil and gas platforms and other offshore installations. Oil platform and platform supply vessel are offshore engineering, oil platforms and petroleum production.

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Pompano Platform

Pompano is a offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Port Aransas, Texas

Port Aransas is a city in Nueces County, Texas, United States.

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Produced water

Produced water is a term used in the oil industry or geothermal industry to describe water that is produced as a byproduct during the extraction of oil and natural gas, or used as a medium for heat extraction. Oil platform and produced water are petroleum production.

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Project Mohole

Project Mohole was an attempt in the early 1960s to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle.

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Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

The Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (SUA PROT) is a multilateral treaty by which states agree to prohibit and punish behaviour which may threaten the safety of offshore fixed platforms, including oil platforms. Oil platform and Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf are oil platforms.

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Pumping (oil well)

In the context of oil wells, pumping is a routine operation involving injecting fluids into the well.

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Pure Oil

Pure Oil Company was an American petroleum company founded in 1914 and sold to what is now Union Oil Company of California in 1965.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the process of thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere.

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R. G. LeTourneau

Robert Gilmour "R.

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Rack and pinion

A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear (the pinion) engaging a linear gear (the rack).

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Rigs-to-Reefs

Rigs-to-Reefs (RTR) is the practice of converting decommissioned offshore oil and petroleum rigs into artificial reefs. Oil platform and rigs-to-Reefs are oil platforms.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a major river in North West England.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Roughneck

Roughneck is a term for a person whose occupation is hard manual labor. Oil platform and Roughneck are petroleum production.

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Roustabout

Roustabout (Australia/New Zealand English: rouseabout) is an occupational term.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

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Santa Barbara Channel

The Santa Barbara Channel is a portion of the Southern California Bight and separates the mainland of California from the northern Channel Islands.

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Santos Basin

The Santos Basin (Bacia de Santos) is an approximately large mostly offshore sedimentary basin.

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SAR201

Saudi Aramco Rig 201 is offshore rig owned and managed by Saudi Aramco. Oil platform and SAR201 are oil platforms.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Seabed

The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean.

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Seabed gouging by ice

Seabed gouging by ice is a process that occurs when floating ice features (typically icebergs and sea ice ridges) drift into shallower areas and their keel comes into contact with the seabed.

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Search and rescue

Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.

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Semi-submersible

Semi-submersible may refer to a self-propelled vessel, such as.

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Semi-submersible platform

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. Oil platform and semi-submersible platform are drilling technology, oil platforms and petroleum production.

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Separator (oil production)

The term separator in oilfield terminology designates a pressure vessel used for separating well fluids produced from oil and gas wells into gaseous and liquid components. Oil platform and separator (oil production) are natural gas technology.

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Shallow water drilling

Shallow water drilling is the process of oil and gas exploration and production in less than 150 meters (500 feet) of water. Oil platform and Shallow water drilling are petroleum production.

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Shell USA

Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation "oil major" which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world.

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Ship commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Spar (platform)

A spar is a marine structure, used for floating oil/gas platforms. Oil platform and spar (platform) are offshore engineering and oil platforms.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Submarine pipeline

A submarine pipeline (also known as marine, subsea or offshore pipeline) is a pipeline that is laid on the seabed or below it inside a trench.

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Subsea technology

Subsea technology involves fully submerged ocean equipment, operations, or applications, especially when some distance offshore, in deep ocean waters, or on the seabed.

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Summerland Oil Field

The Summerland Oil Field (and Summerland Offshore Oil Field) is an inactive oil field in Santa Barbara County, California, about four miles (6 km) east of the city of Santa Barbara, within and next to the unincorporated community of Summerland.

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Superior Oil Company

The Superior Oil Company was an American oil company founded in 1921 in Coalinga, California, by William Myron Keck, Superior Oil began as a drilling contracting firm and grew into the exploration and production of oil and natural gas.

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Taranaki Basin

The Taranaki Basin is an onshore-offshore Cretaceous rift basin on the West Coast of New Zealand.

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TEMPSC

TEMPSC is an acronym for "Totally Enclosed Motor Propelled Survival Craft", which was originally designed for offshore oil and gas platforms in 1968.

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Texaco

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Towers

Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War.

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The Cullen Reports

The Cullen Report can refer to one of three reports of public inquiries into UK disasters that were overseen by William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Three-mile limit

The three-mile limit refers to a traditional and now largely obsolete conception of the international law of the seas which defined a country's territorial waters, for the purposes of trade regulation and exclusivity, as extending as far as the reach of cannons fired from land.

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Ton

Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force.

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A tool pusher (sometimes toolpusher, pusher, or The Push) is an occupation within the oil drilling industry. Oil platform and tool pusher are petroleum production.

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Transocean

Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company.

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Troll A platform

The Troll A platform is a Condeep gravity-based structure offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off the west coast of Norway.

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Umbilical cable

An umbilical cable or umbilical is a cable and/or hose that supplies required consumables to an apparatus, like a rocket, or to a person, such as a diver or astronaut.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services.

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United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance

Force Reconnaissance (FORECON) are United States Marine Corps deep reconnaissance companies that supply military intelligence to the command element of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). Force Reconnaissance companies unlike USMC division reconnaissance report to the Marine expeditionary force (MEF) and provide direct action and deep reconnaissance during large-scale operations.

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United States Navy SEALs

The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command.

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United States offshore drilling debate

The United States offshore drilling debate is an ongoing debate in the United States about whether, the extent to which, in which areas, and under what conditions, further offshore drilling should be allowed in U.S.-administered waters.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Venice, Louisiana

Venice is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

Vermilion Parish (Paroisse de Vermillion) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana, created in 1844.

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Water injection (oil production)

In the oil industry, waterflooding or water injection is where water is injected into the oil reservoir, to maintain the pressure (also known as voidage replacement), or to drive oil towards the wells, and thereby increase production. Oil platform and water injection (oil production) are petroleum production.

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Welder

A welder is a person or equipment that fuses materials together.

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Well bay

A well bay is an area of an oil platform where the Christmas trees and wellheads are located. Oil platform and well bay are oil platforms and petroleum production.

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Well intervention

A well intervention, or well work, is any operation carried out on an oil or gas well during, or at the end of, its productive life that alters the state of the well or well geometry, provides well diagnostics, or manages the production of the well. Oil platform and well intervention are petroleum production.

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Well services

Well services is a department within a petroleum production company through which matters concerning existing wells are handled. Oil platform and well services are petroleum production.

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Wellhead

A wellhead is the component at the surface of an oil or gas well that provides the structural and pressure-containing interface for the drilling and production equipment. Oil platform and wellhead are oil platforms and petroleum production.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Wireline (cabling)

In the oil and gas industry, the term wireline usually refers to the use of multi-conductor, single conductor or slickline cable, or "wireline", as a conveyance for the acquisition of subsurface petrophysical and geophysical data and the delivery of well construction services such as pipe recovery, perforating, plug setting and well cleaning and fishing. Oil platform and wireline (cabling) are petroleum production.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_platform

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