The Petronius Platform is an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, which stands 2,000 feet above the ocean floor. This structure is partially supported by buoyancy. Depending on the criteria it may be the world's tallest structure. The Hibernia platform is the world's largest oil and gas platform, located on the Jeanne D'Arc basin, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. The Gravity Base Structure (GBS), which sits on the ocean floor, is 364 feet high and has storage capacity for 1.3 million barrels of crude oil in its 278.8 foot high caisson (Dorel Iosif). The platform acts as a small concrete island with serrated outer edges designed to withstand the impact of an iceberg. The GBS contains production storage tanks and the remainder of the void space is filled with ballast with the entire structure weighing in at 1.2 million tons. The platform stands 734 feet high, which is half the height of New York's Empire State Building (1473) and 108 feet taller than the Calgary Tower (626.6 feet). Signal Oil and Gas

A typical oil production platform is self-sufficient in energy and water needs, housing electrical generation, water desalinators and all of the equipment necessary to process oil and gas such that it can be either delivered directly onshore by pipeline or to a Floating Storage Unit and/or tanker loading facility. Elements in the oil/gas production process include wellhead, production manifold, production separator, glycol process to dry gas, gas compressors, water injection pumps, oil/gas export metering and main oil line pumps. All production facilities are designed to have minimal environmental impact. Larger platforms are assisted by smaller ESVs (emergency support vessels) like the British Iolair that are summoned when something has gone wrong, e.g. when a search and rescue operation is required. During normal operations, PSVs (platform supply vessels) keep the platforms provisioned and supplied, and AHTS vessels can also supply them, as well as tow them to location and serve as standby rescue and firefighting vessels. Signal Oil and Gas