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Since oil platforms are not permitted to move from their
location, they must be designed to withstand some incredibly
severe ocean weather. While they prove that it can be done,
cost reduction by several orders of magnitude is required to
make ocean living practical.
Source: http://seastead.org/commented/paper/review.html#Since_oil_platforms_are_not_permitted_to_move_from
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[Thu Jul 8 15:38:57 PDT 2004-189] Chris (NOSPAMchrmody@hotmail.com.NOSPAM):
Isn't there a mobile oil derrik called "TROLL" or something similar that is mobile, to some extent? I think it needs a lot of service vessels to move from location to location, and it is apparently pretty big by oil rig standards, but it may be something worth looking at - for completeness sake, if nothing else.
[Tue Jun 14 07:10:52 PDT 2005-164] augmento (NOSPAMaugmento@gmail.com.NOSPAM):
this link has good overview of most in use
http://www.naturalgas.org/naturalgas/extraction_offshore.asp
i priced some of these and a small jack-up can be had for a quarter million.
[Fri Dec 16 12:04:50 PST 2005-349] Eliot Grey:
This is your entire full-text section on oil rigs? Used ones are much cheaper than one billion and so are an obvious competitor to custom-built Seasteads. You need to deal with oil rigs MUCH more thoroughly before dismissing them...
[Mon May 8 11:43:47 PDT 2006-127] Lasse:
You should be on the lookout for oil platforms being retired from exhausted fields. The UK government tried to calculate what it'd cost to remove all their platforms and scrap them, and they came up with a dazing number I can't remember off the bat. If you could offer to take care of their platforms and tow it off location (I'm talking about semi-mobile platforms like the Condeep type Chris was referring to), they could surely be useful for _something_.
[Mon May 8 11:44:37 PDT 2006-127] Lasse:
I meant A platform, not SEVERAL. And not necessarily british ones, either. Sorry for the confusion.
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