Oil Rigs - Types of Oil Rigs

In 2005 alone, the U. S. produced an approximate 9,000,000 barrels of crude oil a day and imported 13.21 million barrels every day from other nations. This oil gets refined into petrol, kerosene, heating oil and other products. To keep up with our consumption, oil firms must consistently look for new sources of petroleum, as well as improve the production of existing wells.

An oil well is a general term for any uninteresting thru the Earth's surface designed to find and produce petroleum oil hydrocarbons. Sometimes some natural gas is produced along with the oil, and a well designed to produce mainly or only gas might be named a gas well.

The term can refer to land-based oil rigs, or a marine-based structure commonly called an 'offshore rig'. The term correctly refers to the equipment that drills the oil well including the rig crane ( which is like a metal frame tower). Laypeople also refer to the structure on that the oil rigs and from which the wells produce as a 'rig', but this isn't correct. The right name for the structure in a marine environment is platform. 

In early oil exploration, drilling rigs were semi-permanent in nature regularly being built on site and left in place after the completion of the well. In more latest times drilling rigs are pricey custom built machines that are capable of being moved from well to well. Some light duty drilling rigs are similar in nature to a mobile crane though these are more typically used to drill water wells. Bigger land rigs must be damaged apart into multiple sections and loads to move to a new location, a process which can frequently take weeks.

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