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Record 1 2006-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

Offshore units used by the petroleum industry to explore, develop, and produce oil and gas can be categorized as follows: 1. Fixed platforms, ... permanently attached to the ocean floor and ... not moveable. 2. Mobile platforms ... designed for mobility and intended to be at a given location a limited time period. The three general types of mobile platforms are: (a) the self-elevation units ; (b) the surface-type units (ship units and barge units) ; and (c) column-stabilized or semisubmersible units.

CONT

There are four basic forms of offshore rig: (a) Fixed Multi-well Platform ; (b) Mobile Jack-up Platform ; (c) Drill ship ; (d) Semi-submersible Platform.

CONT

As the men got farther out into the Gulf, they began to see many offshore rigs with their platforms, and tall derricks, where drilling was going on. Those on which drilling had finished and derricks were removed are also called platforms.

CONT

Destined for operation on Lake Erie this summer this offshore drilling rig built for Petrolia Oil Drilling Ltd. of Calgary by Davie Shipbuilding at Lauzon, heads up the St. Lawrence Seaway for final fitting at Port Maitland. The final overall width of the rig will be 134 feet, with 220-foot-long jacking legs extending to the lake bottom. Source : The Gazette 21-5-69.

CONT

On deep land rigs and on most offshore rigs there will be two 1300 or 1500 hp pumps.

CONT

More than half of the offshore rigs in operation are working in United States water, predominantly in the Gulf of Mexico.

PHR

Fixed offshore drilling platform.

PHR

Offshore fixed drilling plaform.

PHR

Offshore self-elevating drilling platform.

OBS

Strictly speaking, the platform and derrick are parts of a drilling rig.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Surface plate équipée de différents matériels servant au forage de puits de pétrole en mer.

CONT

Il y a aujourd'hui trois grandes familles d'engins de forage en mer : les navires de forage, les plates-formes auto-élévatrices et les plates-formes semi-submersibles.

CONT

[...] le SS-55T est utilisé pour des missions de desserte des plates-formes de forage pétrolier en mer [...]

OBS

Au sens strict, la plate-forme et le derrick sont des composantes de l'engin de forage.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme de forage en mer
  • plateforme de forage pétrolier en mer
  • plateforme de forage sous-marin
  • plateforme marine de forage
  • plateforme offshore

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
DEF

Explotación que posibilita la extracción de hidrocarburos mediante sondeos en zonas poco profundas de las plataformas continentales.

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