Sea Quest
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The Sea Quest was a semi-submersible platform that discovered the UK's first North Sea oil, in the Forties oilfield, on 14 September 1970.[1]
The Sea Quest was built by Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff for BP at a cost of £3.5 million and launched on 8 January 1966.[2] The entire structure was 320 feet high and weighed 150,000 tons, including three legs each 35 feet in diameter and 160 feet long that could be partially filled with water to control the height of the platform above the sea.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Cresswell, Jeremy (25 September 2007). "Britain's Low Key First Success". OilCity. http://www.oilcity.co.uk/home/article.asp?pageid=471. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ "Oil-Drilling Rig Launched In Belfast for North Sea Use". New York Times: p. 33. January 8, 1966. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30612FF3A5F1A7493CAA9178AD85F428685F9. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ "Photograph caption". The Age (Melbourne, Australia): p. 4. 4 July 1966. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dHwQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZZMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1310,530537. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ Ferrier, RW; Bamberg, JH (1982). The History of the British Petroleum Company. Cambridge University Press. pp. 200–3. ISBN 978-0521785150. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LVC0VlPOJxEC&pg=PA201.
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