Oil Platform Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|---|
TDW | B | Tidewater Inc. | -0.28 | |
GIFI | C | Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. | -2.28 | |
HP | C | Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | -0.36 | |
SMHI | C | SEACOR Marine Holdings Inc. | 1.08 | |
NE | C | Noble Holding Corporation Plc | 0.87 | |
WHD | C | Cactus, Inc. | 0.70 | |
SFL | C | Ship Finance International Limited | 0.76 | |
DO | D | Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. | 1.48 | |
TTI | D | Tetra Technologies, Inc. | -0.23 | |
DRQ | D | Dril-Quip, Inc. | -0.61 |
Related Industries: Oil & Gas Drilling Oil & Gas Equipment & Services Shipping & Ports
Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
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XES | C | SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment & Services ETF | 17.35 | |
OFOS | B | Range Global Offshore Oil Services Index ETF | 15.86 | |
IEZ | C | iShares U.S. Oil Equipment & Services ETF | 14.37 | |
PSCE | C | PowerShares S&P SmallCap Energy Portfolio | 8.37 | |
OIH | C | Market Vectors Oil Services ETF | 6.83 |
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- Oil Platform
An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, process petroleum and natural gas which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. In many cases, the platform contains facilities to house the workforce as well.
Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf, though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters and inland seas.
Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, may consist of an artificial island, or may float. Remote subsea wells may also be connected to a platform by flow lines and by umbilical connections. These sub-sea solutions may consist of one or more subsea wells, or of one or more manifold centres for multiple wells.
Offshore drilling presents environmental challenges, both from the produced hydrocarbons and the materials used during the drilling operation. Controversies include the ongoing U.S. offshore drilling debate.There are many different types of facilities from which offshore drilling operations take place. These include bottom founded drilling rigs (jackup barges and swamp barges), combined drilling and production facilities either bottom founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) including semi-submersibles and drillships. These are capable of operating in water depths up to 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). In shallower waters the mobile units are anchored to the seabed, however in deeper water (more than 1,500 metres (4,900 ft)) the semisubmersibles or drillships are maintained at the required drilling location using dynamic positioning.
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