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240 km off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, where the sea depth exceeds 1600 m, a floating factory – the drilling platform EVA-4000, owned by Noble Jim Thompson – operates non-stop. This space age structure was created to search for treasure – oil. The giant oil platform is designed solely to search for it. This is one of the largest mobile offshore platforms in the history of oil production.
The deck of an EVA-4000 oil platform is 10 basketball courts. Its derrick rises to 52 m, and its hull is able to keep afloat all its 13,600 tons of weight. Even today, the scale of this giant is amazing.
Near Sakhalin Island, the world’s largest offshore drilling platform, called Berkut, was installed. Of course, there are other huge drilling platforms in the world, standing in the ocean, where the depth is much higher than the installation depth of the Berkut platform, but the latter has the largest and most massive surface part, weighing 45 thousand tons and manufactured by the Korean company Daewoo, which distinguishes it from the general row. The Berkut platform, which cost $12 billion to build and weighs 200,000 tons in total, will produce 4.5 million tons of oil from the Arkutun-Dagi field, operating in the harsh subarctic conditions of the Sea of Okhotsk.
