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• Offshore oil and gas in California — All oil drilling into the South Ellwood Offshore field takes place from Platform Holly, about two miles (3 km) offshore in state waters …   Wikipedia

• offshore — 01. The government has given permission to an oil company to do [offshore] drilling on the west coast of the state. 02. With no direct taxation, the Cayman Islands are a thriving [offshore] financial center. 03. A recent study suggests that an… …   Grammatical examples in English

• offshore — off|shore [ˌɔfˈʃo: US ˌo:fˈʃo:r] adj 1.) in or under the sea and not far from the coast →↑inshore, ↑onshore ▪ offshore oil fields ▪ an offshore island 2.) offshore banks/companies/investments etc banks etc that are based abroad in a country where …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Offshore concrete structure — Offshore concrete structures have been in use successfully for about 30 years. They serve the same purpose as their steel counterparts in the oil and gas production and storage. The first concrete oil platform has been installed in the North Sea… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore oil and gas in the United States — provides a large portion of the nation’s oil and gas supply. Large oil and gas reservoirs are found in the sea nearby Louisiana, Texas, California, and Alaska. Environmental concerns have prevented or restricted offshore drilling in some areas,… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore Power Systems — (OPS) was a 1970 joint venture between Westinghouse Electric Company, which constructed nuclear generating plants, and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, which had recently merged with Tenneco, to create floating nuclear power plants at… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore aquaculture — uses fish cages similar to these inshore ones, except they are submerged and moved offshore into deeper water. Offshore aquaculture, also known as open ocean aquaculture, is an emerging approach to mariculture or marine farming where fish farms… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore drilling on the US Atlantic coast — for oil and gas took place from 1947 to the early 1980s. Oil companies drilled 5 wells in Atlantic Florida state waters and 51 exploratory wells on federal leases on the outer continental shelf of the Atlantic coast. None of the wells were… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore drilling — refers to a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled through the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently produce hydrocarbons which lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Most commonly, the term is… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico — is a major source of oil and natural gas in the United States. The western and central Gulf of Mexico, which includes offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is one of the major petroleum producing areas of the United States. In 2007 …   Wikipedia

• Offshore radio — is radio broadcasting from ships or fixed maritime structures, usually in international waters. The claimed first wireless broadcast of music and speech for the purpose of entertainment was transmitted from a Royal Naval craft, the HMS Andromeda …   Wikipedia