From roving, computer-controlled contraptions to giant "spar" platforms held up by 10,000-foot poles, today's deepwater rigs are going far beyond anything their offshore forefathers could have ...

The two most unique offshore oil rigs are subsea systems and spar platforms. Subsea systems are, as you may guess, below the water line and sit on the sea floor.

Today, Bullwinkle is still one of the tallest oil platforms, but newer rigs like the Petronius Complaint Tower can span over 2,000 feet. ... Another type of oil rig is a Spar Platform.

The world’s deepest-drilling oil platform is maneuvering into place in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell’s Perdido oil platform will drill for petroleum more than 8,000 feet below the water’s surface.

ATP Oil&Gas has settled on a truss spar solution to develop its recently acquired Mirage, Morgus and Oasis fields in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. 15 June 2006 23:01 GMT Updated 15 June 2006 23: ...

The rig’s drilling module is supported by a custom skid base that spans the spar’s 65-ft (19.8 m) capping beams and is designed to be assembled by the spar’s two pedestal cranes.

Onboard High-Tech Oil Rig, U.S. Answers to Rising Prices. ... A production platform known as a spar will then be anchored in the middle of the Perdido operation, ...

Using a moveable rig, the wells are drilled and pass gas and oil via pipelines to a production platform. Subsea systems can be used at depths of up to 2100 meters.