terms:offshore_drilling
Drilling for oil in an ocean or large lake. A drilling unit for offshore operations may be a mobile floating vessel with a ship or barge hull, a semisubmersible or submersible base, a self-propelled or towed structure with jacking legs (jack-up drilling rig), or a permanent structure used as a production platform when drilling is completed. In general, wildcat wells are drilled from mobile floating vessels (as semisubmersible rigs and drill ships) or from jack-ups. while development wells are drilled from platforms.
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