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1Offshore drilling — refers to a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled through the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently produce hydrocarbons which lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Most commonly, the term is… …
2Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico — is a major source of oil and natural gas in the United States. The western and central Gulf of Mexico, which includes offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is one of the major petroleum producing areas of the United States. In 2007 …
3History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development) — discoveries took place near population centres or along lines of penetration into the frontier. The first oil play, for example, was in southern Ontario. The first western natural gas discovery occurred on a Canadian Pacific Railway right of way …
4Drilling rig — For a detailed diagram of a Petroleum drilling rig, see List of components of oil drilling rigs. Drilling rig preparing rock blasting …
5Deepwater Horizon — This article is about the drilling rig. For the explosion and oil spill, see Deepwater Horizon (disambiguation). Deepwater Horizon semi submersible drilling rig. Career …
6Montara oil spill — Satellite image of the oil slick in the Timor Sea, September 2009. Location Timor Sea, off the northern coast of Western Australia …
7Odyssey (launch platform) — Ocean Odyssey redirects here. For the television series of the same name, see Ocean Odyssey (TV series). For the oil tanker, see Odyssey (tanker). For the FIRST Lego League game, see Ocean Odyssey (FIRST). Odyssey at a graving dock in Esquimalt,… …
8ODECO — Ocean Drilling Exploration Company (ODECO) was a pioneering offshore drilling company formed by Alden J. Doc LaBorde and John Hayward in May 1953.[1] Early years John Hayward was the builder of the Barnsdall rig, and holder of the patent on… …
9Guyana — Guyanese /guy euh neez , nees /, n., adj. /guy an euh, ah neuh/, n. an independent republic on the NE coast of South America: a former British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 706,116; 82,978 sq. mi.… …
10launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space. [1955 1960] * * * Rocket system that boosts a spacecraft into Earth orbit or beyond Earth s gravitational pull. A wide variety of launch vehicles …
