Norway's Draugen Oil Platform is an Engineering Marvel!
Aug 18 2011
Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea at a sea depth of 250 meters. The field has been developed with a concrete fixed facility and integrated topside. Stabilized oil is stored in tanks at the base of the facility. Two pipelines are used to transport the oil from the facility to a floating loading buoy.
Shell Petroleum owns this oil platform and it is operational to this day.
Photo by John L Downes.
The floating buoy that comes to collect the oil from the platform. The size of this rig is immense!
A 3D interpretation of the platform and its structure, done by Coin3D. Very cool!
