Furthermore, the hull can provide storage for produced oil or gas. Atop the spar hull sits the topsides, which can be comprised of drilling equipment, production facilities and living quarters.

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Another type of oil rig is a Spar Platform. These types of platforms make up some of the largest offshore structures in use. They consist of a large cylinder that supports a fixed rig platform.

A 17,200 offshore platform capable of collecting 24 million tons of oil a year has been launched by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a national oil company in China.

Leading floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) players are queuing up for an opportunity to supply a replacement ...

Several hundred oil drilling platforms in the waters off Scotland ... attention as was the case in the decommissioning of Brent Spar in the 1990s”. When Shell proposed sinking the Spar oil ...

It was a celebrated environmental protest off the coast of Scotland which made headlines around the world. Now the exploits of activists who took on the might of an oil industry giant in the middle of ...

1990 - Six men died when a Sikorsky helicopter struck the Brent Spar oil storage platform in the North Sea. 1992 - 11 men were killed when a helicopter crashed into the North Sea during a routine ...

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Chevron announced that non-essential employees and contractors have been pulled from four platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico ...

The DOE said it has bought more than 50 million barrels so far at an average price of $76 a barrel. The SPR held 380.6 barrels of oil as of Sept. 13, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

Kamala Harris, who pulled off a strong performance and decisive victory, failed to respond in a way that could have ...