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[edit] Oil platform vs oil rigs
Generally in the offshore oil and gas industry there is a distinction between platforms - where oil/gas are produced - and rigs - where drilling is done. Platforms tend to be fixed in position, while rigs are more mobile (it is also possible to have a drilling platform for a fixed drilling facility, usually located alongside a production platform). This article is pretty good, but reading it there is some use of the word "rig" where it would be better to stick to the term "platform". The article is pretty good, and I'm only a newbie, so I hesitate to edit it myself.
- Your comments are correct. There is a need to create an article entitled Offshore drilling rig or some similar title and then to move all the offshore rig literature to it. The confusion arises because many offshore platforms have drilling rigs during their initial phases. Once all the wells are drilled for a specific platform, these drilling rigs are disassabled and moved elsewhere. I would also recommend retitling this article to Offshore production platform. I'd do it, but I don't have the patience. --129.173.105.28 22:27, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
nice article
cooler than rigs
[edit] Semi-submersible section confusing
Most of the semi-subs I've worked on have relied on their submerged pontoons for their bouyancy, rather than their legs. Actually there's a lot of planning in *reducing* the bouyancy in the columns, because of it's effects on the wave response and motion characteristics of the intallation. "Installation" is the generic term that's used for "somewhere people fly out to work on in the oilfield", and which doesn't differentiate between it being involved in planning (survey boats), drilling (drilling rigs), producing (production platforms), pumping (pumping stations and manifolds), storage (FPSOs), tankering (tankers), dive interventions (dive support vessels) ... or any of the other myriad of services needed. To a helicopter company, they're all the same. User 129.173.105.28 above appears to be confusing drilling rigs *on* installations with jack-up style drilling rigs positioned alongside an installation and doing the drilling for the installation when their derrick is "cantilevered out" over the installations wellhead module. I can see that I'm going to have to try to find some module layout plans for various rig types.
I saw a ship today which seemed stationary and had about 4 tall columns. This was in Vizag, India. Please share any knowledge. Thanks.
[edit] largest oil platform
This article states that Hibernia is the largest oil platform. Later it says "Oil Rocks is still quite unique as the world's first and largest oil platform." Which is the largest? Ydorb 17:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Size
This now is getting biased like so many articles where the US companies needs to show themselves as best and biggest. You have pictures from construction of some of the largest constructions in the world - that even exceeds the size of the space vehicle assembly building at Cape Kennedy. Now I just wonder why you do not bother to list them as when you start comparing things. The day the "Not Invented Here" syndrome hits Wikipedia - it is the end of the site. So US contributors: I do not bother to correct, until the author of the article asks me, but be careful - size matters, and do not look in the US any longer for the biggest and most advanced.--KH Flottorp 12:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Free Design
I wana idea for basic design of platforms???? ... that will cost you a cool $10 mln --KH Flottorp 12:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
