CALIFORNIA SOON TO HAVE PLATFORM IN 850 FT OF WATER
Exxon's oil drilling and production platform, to be placed off Santa Barbara, Calif. next July, will stand in water twice as deep (850 ft versus about 420 ft) as any other such platform. The jacket, standing about 900-ft high, has piles driven through its eight legs that are about 1,250-ft high; but the portion of the pile above seabed acts not as pile but as leg. The jacket is being fabricated in two pieces, top and bottom, which will be joined near the site. Hydraulic connectors, each consisting of hydraulic cylinders arrayed radially around each leg, lock the two halves together until they are welded.
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Availability:
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Corporate Authors:
American Society of Civil Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY United States 10017-2398 - Publication Date: 1976-4
Media Info
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Serial:
- Civil Engineering
- Volume: 46
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- ISSN: 0885-7024
- Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Construction; Offshore construction; Offshore drilling platforms; Offshore platforms; Offshore structures; Petroleum terminals; Port structures; Steel; Support piles
- Old TRIS Terms: Offshore platform construction; Oil terminals; Steel construction
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00147848
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM