How Offshore Oilrigs Work, Float, and Extract Oil

Offshore drilling is the process of extracting petroleum from reserves located beneath the Earth's oceans instead of reserves located on the mainland. Offshore oil rigs have developed greatly over the past years, and have become gigantic structures that house hundreds of people at a time.

0:55 How it floats
1:35 What's on the oilrig
2:30 Drilling
3:27 Blowout Preventer

[thesecondtonone]

The engineering behind this is insane.

[NtoTheM]

I wasn't even aware we actually use floating platforms.

All these years I was picturing these massive kilometers long structures that must be built to connect to the ocean floor and hold these rigs...

Now I feel stupid. But also smarter. Which feels weird.

[Rogueblue]

The sheer scale of these operations is mind boggling

[stormblessed]

Every employee at BP watches this video before being fully certified. Congratulations, you are now qualified to work for BP.

[K.H]

This is insanely mind blowing, the amount of works it takes.

[Sunsetover]

As a non technical person I used to wonder how rigs assembled and worked ….. you have explained marvellously in simple terms 👍

[wmitchell]

I worked for over 40 yrs in manufacturing machining parts for the oil industry, great video!

[gustavoadolfomelindres]

This channel is fantastic. It's like the 'How it's made' of Youtube. Hope it gets the recognition it deserves.

[sukhrobjonramazanov]

Humans are insanely creative. I have never imagined this type of construction. In order to create this people spent millions of years of knowledge and expreience.

[Alcor]

the engineering and design that goes into these things is amazing

[supadigga]

Very interesting! I have always wanted to understand exactly how oil rigs work. Thank you for this detailed info! 👍🏾

[themurph]

I really like the detail you get from technical animations such as this. A massive help to understanding how technology works.

[riproar]

I learned about oil rigs many years ago but the books never gave much information about how the oil makes it to shore. It's very interesting to learn about all of the established underwater pipelines!

[BarcaScout]

Great video mate, I was always interested how oil rigs works. Thank you again, great explanation.

[Romualdomgn]

Thank you for explanation. I could have never imagined how complicated is underwater oil extraction and its transportation to the land.

[elsgarage]

Fantastic video, great work and thank you for the lesson.

[brunocer]

What a video! So clear and easy to understand it. Well done!

[userbg]

Really informative about a curious subject I knew nothing about. Thank you!👍🏻

[jnbqwhe]

Whoever imagined such a structure with such sheer scale of engineering and whoever built it deserve more praise and recognition than physicists get!

[BORN-to-Run]

WOW! That was quite interesting.
I've often wondered how that works, but never bothered to find-out.
This was EXCELLENT.
It gave me just enough information to now know a little something about it (actually, A LOT).
Thank you