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How oil is extracted at sea. The Berkut offshore oil drilling platform is one of the largest in the world and the largest in Russia. It is located 25 kilometers from Sakhalin Island on the shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk. This is a huge, fully autonomous plant on giant reinforced concrete piles, which not only drills new wells, but also simultaneously extracts several thousand tons of oil from enormous depths every day. The platform is capable of withstanding 18-meter waves, temperatures down to -44 C ° and the pressure of ice fields up to 2 meters thick. During the construction of the platform, a seismic protection system was used for the first time in the world, which allows it to withstand an earthquake of 9 points without loss of functionality. Anatomy of Monsters is a program about the creation and design of giants of modern mechanical engineering. #oil #review #howitworks