The first set of offshore platforms were completed by 1979.
This can also be done when a ship or offshore floating platform is in service.
It passes the space station and returns to Earth, landing at an offshore platform.
He tells her it is an offshore platform but that only men work in such a place.
Many permanent offshore platforms have full oil production facilities on board.
It is important to remember that everything used on an offshore platform has to come from somewhere onshore.
"Imagine that we are on an offshore platform - only here the sea is green."
It involves construction of three offshore platforms in addition to the land based facilities.
There are, at present, hundreds of offshore platforms, drilling for both oil and natural gas.
The single offshore platform where production is already under way lies in just 160 feet of water.