What Is an Oil Platform?

An oil platform , or oil platform (English: oil platform, offshore platform, oil rig), is a large-scale structural facility located at sea, used for drilling and extraction of oil and natural gas, and temporarily stored until the oil is transported to land Refinery to crack crude oil into products. In many cases, the platform contains mining facilities and a residential area that houses labor.

An oil platform , or oil platform , is a large-scale structural facility located at sea, used for
The world's first oil production from an underwater oil well was in 1891, on a wooden stake on St. Mary's Lake in Ohio. The world's first offshore drilling platform was in the United States in 1896.
The oil platform is the largest movable man-made structure in the world. There are several types:

Oil platform risk

  1. Oil spill, destroying ecological environment
  2. Caused the sinking of the continental shelf, triggering an earthquake / undersea volcanic eruption [1]

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