Oil Gas Rigs
A platform in Offshore or often referred to as an oil gas rigs platform, is a structure that being used to house workers and machinery needed to drill wells in the ocean bed, extract the crude oil and or natural gas, process the produced fluids, and ship them to shore.
There are many type of offshore platform or oil gas rigs, depending on the circumstances, the platform may be attached to the ocean floor, or be a floating structure. Most offshore structures are located on the continental shelf. Due to advances in technology and crude oil surge prices, drilling and production in deeper waters has become both feasible and economically viable.
A typical platform or a structure located offshore, may have around thirty wellheads located on the platform. The directional drilling allows reservoirs to be accessed at both different depths and at remote positions up to 5 miles or about 8 kilo meters from the platform.
A remote subsea wells may also be connected to a platform by flow lines and by umbilical flexi connections. These subsea solutions may consist of single wells or of a manifold centre for multiple wells.
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