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An off-shore oil platform or
oil-rig is a large structure
used to house workers and
machinery needed to process
oil and natural gas from
wells in the sea bed.
Depending on water depths
at the continental shelf,
the platform is attached
to the ocean floor or is
floating (FPSO Floating
Production Storage and
Offloading).
Most platforms today have
remote wellheads attached
by flexible connections,
these may be single wells
or a manifold centre for
multiple wells.