Oil rigs
An oil platform or oil rig is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and/or produce oil and natural gas through wells in the ocean bed. 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.

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- The number of gas rigs was 672, a drop of 16 rigs from last week, while the oil rig count rose to 234, an increase of five rigs. The number of miscellaneous ...
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- Oil rig use fell to 58 from 63 in the previous month, while natural-gas drillers kept using three rigs, according to figures released today by Baker Hughes ...
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- The number of gas rigs fell by five rigs to 687 from last week, while the oil rig count rose 23 rigs to 219. The number of miscellaneous rigs remained flat ...
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