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An Oil Platform as “World’s Tallest Structure”?

Monday, January 14, 2013 7:13

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Although only a few hundred feet of the Magnolia Platform is visible above water level its total height from the bed of the seafloor to the top of the platform is 4,698 feet (1,432 meters). Some people consider it the world’s tallest structure. Others define “tallest structure” differently. Image by NOAA Ocean Explorer [1].

The World’s Tallest Structure?
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When the term “World’s Tallest Structure” is mentioned most people immediately think of a “skyscraper” or a very tall building. The Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai), a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, holds the title of the world’s tallest building with an amazing height of 2717 feet (828 meters).

However, if you consider any structure that extends upwards from Earth’s surface, then many deepwater oil platforms are much taller than the Burj Khalifa. In 2009, the Guinness World Records recognized an oil platform as the “world’s tallest structure”.

This illustration shows several types of offshore oil and gas structures. Various designs can be used for drilling, production management, crude storage and offloading. #1 and #2 are conventional fixed platforms anchored to the seabed; #3 is a compliant tower; #4 and #5 are vertically moored tension leg and mini-tension leg platforms (#4 represents the design of the ConocoPhillips’ Magnolia TLP); #6 is a spar platform; #7 and #8 are semi-submersible platforms; #9 is a floating production, storage, and offloading facility; and, #10 is a sub-sea completion and tie-back to host facility. [6] Image by NOAA Ocean Explorer

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