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The Environmental Consequences of Offshore Drilling

Introduction
Offshore drilling is usually referred to the act of mining underground resources of earth slouching beneath sea-floor close to the shoreline. Normally, the term “offshore drilling” is used to express the process of oil extraction off the continental coasts although; the term can also be applied to drilling in lakes and inland seas. The initial offshore drilling was conducted at the 19th century ending in Baku at the “Bibi-Eibat” field and in the year 1896 at “Summerland field” on the Californian Coast. Oil & gas production in the sea is the most difficult and more than for land-based fitting and much of the improvement in the offshore petroleum sector revolves around overcoming these challenges. This includes a significant necessity of “Manned facilities have to to be kept above sea-level.”
This can be only achieved with vast constructions with their foundations on the sea bed, like “the Troll”......

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