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  • Thumbnail for Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum
    The Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, located in Galveston, Texas, is a museum dedicated to the offshore oil and gas industry. Located next to...
    4 KB (373 words) - 18:25, 1 March 2025
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    During that era, the simple drilling techniques, such as cable-tool drilling, and the lack of blowout preventers meant that drillers could not control high-pressure...
    46 KB (4,774 words) - 00:49, 23 March 2025
  • Eye Circle, a South Korean girl group Offshore Energy Center, sponsor of the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum in Galveston, Texas, United States...
    1 KB (224 words) - 17:45, 25 August 2024
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    Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown...
    147 KB (13,650 words) - 09:59, 21 March 2025
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    platform converted from a mobile drilling rig in 1997. The vessel was used by Sea Launch for equatorial Pacific Ocean launches. She works in concert with...
    15 KB (1,298 words) - 10:29, 12 December 2023
  • (schooner), a schooner built in 1991 Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum in Galveston, Texas, USA R/V Ocean Starr, an American oceanographic research...
    524 bytes (94 words) - 09:54, 12 March 2019
  • Thumbnail for Deepwater Horizon explosion
    Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil...
    71 KB (7,092 words) - 06:32, 7 February 2025
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    occurred. Rough seas in Lake Erie resulted in several maritime incidents offshore Ohio. The John B. Lyon, a 255 ft (77.7 m) steamer, capsized about 5 mi...
    113 KB (12,820 words) - 01:26, 13 March 2025
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    disaster. The rig was built as a mobile drilling unit at a French shipyard, and delivered to Stavanger Drilling in July 1976. The rig was named after...
    12 KB (1,300 words) - 23:43, 27 January 2025
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    column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Energy. Byford Dolphin was registered in Hamilton, Bermuda, and drilled seasonally...
    19 KB (1,853 words) - 20:28, 25 February 2025
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    culture of safety on that rig," the co-chair said. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a final report...
    240 KB (22,803 words) - 15:53, 21 March 2025
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    Great Storm of 1900 and The Pirate Island of Jean Lafitte, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, and the Texas Seaport Museum with tall ship Elissa...
    11 KB (1,197 words) - 09:38, 14 February 2025
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    Alabama, for conversion to a dynamically positioned deep sea drilling ship, capable of drilling in waters of 7,500 feet (2,300 m) and, with some modification...
    21 KB (2,053 words) - 07:27, 26 January 2025
  • fresh face on-board the rig. Iain Glen as Magnus MacMillan: The leader of the crew and the offshore installation manager of the rig. Martin Compston as Fulmer...
    33 KB (1,265 words) - 13:35, 28 January 2025
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    Museum, Luling, Texas East Texas Oil Museum, Kilgore, Texas Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, Galveston, Texas Permian Basin Petroleum Museum,...
    6 KB (491 words) - 14:56, 23 February 2025
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    platforms are key fixed installations from which drilling and production activity is carried out. Drilling rigs are either floating vessels for deeper water...
    7 KB (823 words) - 18:41, 28 August 2024
  • 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an oil drilling rig operated by private contractor Transocean, is set to complete drilling off the southern coast of Louisiana...
    49 KB (4,246 words) - 12:36, 18 March 2025
  • Texas Galveston Texas Seaport Museum [239] Y Texas Galveston Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum [240] Texas Houston Houston Maritime Museum [241]...
    42 KB (203 words) - 23:41, 6 March 2025
  • Sandhaven, which was the standby vessel for Santa Fe 135, a semi-submersible drilling rig several miles away, and had her fast rescue craft in the water minutes...
    112 KB (12,348 words) - 03:05, 3 March 2025
  • No Nurture Nature Center Easton Pennsylvania No No Yes No Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum Galveston Texas No No No No OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria...
    64 KB (196 words) - 12:32, 24 February 2025
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