This was not a "rig" deepwater horizon was a rig. This was a production platform. Rigs are mobile, production platforms are stationary and fixed. That is not to say that a drilling rig can't be placed on the stationary platform, they do that all the time. They just place the drilling equipment on a boat and a crane takes that up to the platform. In many instances, mobile rigs are positioned very close to the production platform and a well is drilled that will be serviced by the production platform providing it is not a dry hole.
Last edited by Burnt Drag; 09-05-2010 at 06:35 AM.
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