An Offshore Platform (or Offshore Drilling Rig) is a large structure with facilities to drill wells and extract the oil and natural gas also, temporarily store product on the vessel or platform at the mobile offshore. The Offshore Drilling Rig can be a jackup that is up to 400 feet of water, semi-submersible, or drillship that is up to 12,000 feet of water.
Related Definitions in the Project: The Upstream Engineering
Example Article of the Offshore Platform:
Platform Fire Forces Pemex To Shut In 700,000 Barrels Of Oil (Source: Oil Price on 10 July 2023): By Charles Kennedy - Fire on an offshore platform operated by Mexico’s Pemex has led to the shut-in of 700,000 barrels of oil, Reuters has reported, citing the chief executive of the company, Octavio Romero. The fire began on Friday at the Nohoch-A platform that is located in the Bay of Campeche. Six workers were injured, two of them fatally, and one is still missing, according to reports from Reuters and MarketWatch. On Friday, CEO Octavio Romero reported that fireboats had come quickly and prevented the fire from spreading to other facilities in the area: Pemex operates five platforms in the Cantarell field. At the time, Romero estimated potential losses at several thousand barrels of oil equivalent, per a release posted on the Pemex website. This is not the first fire to break out on a Pemex platform. Two years ago, during maintenance season, the company had a fire erupt in an offshore gas-processing plant in the Bay of Campeche. The fire killed five and shut in some 400,000 barrels daily in production. ...
