** Four Sleipner class ships: Æger ( sunk, 9 April ), Sleipner ( escaped to the UK after fighting the German invasion ), Gyller and Odin ( both captured by the Germans at Kristiansand 9 April )

** Lyngør, a cluster of offshore islands which have been described as the ' Skagerrak Venice ' and proclaimed by the European Commission to be “ Europe ’ s best preserved village .”

** Minerva offshore, Victoria, 90 % owned

** 1978: Offshore construction work started at Kvaerner Egersund and during this period the shipyard in Stavanger was converted into an offshore fabrication facility.

** 2000: In July of that year, Aker Maritime ASA, a Norway-based offshore products, technology and services provider, bought a 26 per cent of the shares in Kvaerner ASA.

** to deploy an anchor (" She anchored offshore.

** Wind farms-in 2009, Centrica completed its 180MW Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farm development and announced plans to build the £ 725m Lincs offshore wind farm capable of generating over 270MW.

** Deepwater Horizon ( disambiguation ), an offshore oil drilling rig which exploded 20 April 2010 and caused the largest offshore oil spill in U. S. history

** Deepwater Nautilus, ultra-deepwater, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig

** 2nd round: 1 – 2 meters ( 4 – 6 foot ) thundering tubular waves with offshore winds

** 1st round: 1, 5-2, 5 meters ( 6 – 8 foot ) east / southeast swell offshore winds

** San Gregorio Fault, an earthquake fault associated with the San Andreas fault offshore of San Mateo and more southern counties

** Drydock, a basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform

** Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded

** Web 2. 0, a perceived transition of the Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving Web applications

** The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

** The Piper Alpha production platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners.

** The platform code found on Itanium systems, Intel-based Mac OS X machines, and many Intel desktop boards is EFI-compliant firmware

** LMS Imagine. Lab AMESim, simulation platform to model and analyze multi-domain systems and predict their performances

** Road Runner ( video game ), a 1985 platform game

** CP / M computers based on the S-100 bus, maybe the earliest microcomputer platform

** Wheelchair lift ( also called a " platform lift "), a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair in passing a vertical barrier

** A large maritime navigational aid providing a platform for light and radio beacons

** Sky ( UK and Ireland ), a television and radio platform run by BSkyB

** LEO I ' Lyons Electronic Office ' was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co.

** Temporal ( video game ), a freeware platform and puzzle game

** RODIN Data Asset Management, a software solution for building and deploying data warehouses and data marts on the IBM i platform

** The signal box and traction maintenance depot north of the platform are both open for public viewing, allowing for an insight into the physical labour that is required to run a steam railway.

** Serving the local villages of Quorn and Woodhouse, this station is built to the standards of Great Central, with an island platform and an overbridge.

** South of the platform is a small set of goods sidings which currently store the TPOs, mineral wagons and other stock when they are not in use.

** Adobe Flash Builder, formerly Adobe Flex Builder, is an integrated development environment ( IDE ) built on the Eclipse platform meant for developing rich Internet applications ( RIAs ) and cross-platform desktop applications for the Adobe Flash platform.

** One platform shows a London Underground style roundel name board, the other a Metropolitan Railway Diamond name board.

** Of which the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant were generically referred to as K-cars because of the platform and the K insignia

** Troll A platform, a Norwegian production platform for this gas field

In one notorious case, an internal error in NASTRAN was identified as responsible for the 1991 collapse of the Sleipner A offshore platform.

In the North Sea, Norway's Statoil natural-gas platform Sleipner strips carbon dioxide out of the natural gas with amine solvents and disposes of this carbon dioxide by geological sequestration.

In the North Sea, Norway's Statoil natural-gas platform Sleipner strips carbon dioxide out of the natural gas with amine solvents and disposes of this carbon dioxide by geological sequestration (" Carbon sequestration ").

The success of an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 1947 was soon repeated elsewhere in the world, and by 1970 it was technically feasible to operate in waters 4000 metres deep.

* Compliant Tower, a deepwater offshore oil platform

* The MC 109 manning an offshore oil platform operated by Stone Energy is named " Amberjack ".

< center > Oil Platform P-51 off the Brazil ian coast is a semi-submersible platform .</ center > An oil platform, often referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a large structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing.

In 1937 Pure Oil Company ( now part of Chevron Corporation ) and its partner Superior Oil Company ( now part of ExxonMobil Corporation ) used a fixed platform to develop a field in of water, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) offshore of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

But it was Kerr-McGee Oil Industries ( now Anadarko Petroleum Corporation ), as operator for partners Phillips Petroleum ( ConocoPhillips ) and Stanolind Oil & Gas ( BP ), that completed its historic Ship Shoal Block 32 well in October 1947, months before Superior actually drilled a discovery from their Vermilion platform farther offshore.

The size of offshore lifts can be reduced by making the construction modular, with each module being constructed onshore and then lifted using a crane vessel into place onto the platform.

Equipment was provided for the first multiwell platform offshore China, and an Otis Engineering team controlled a gigantic Tengiz field blowout in the Soviet Union.

* REM Island, a platform towed into international waters for the purposes of offshore radio broadcasting.

The Troll A platform is a condeep offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off the west coast of Norway.

In 1996 the platform set the Guinness World Record for ' largest offshore gas platform '.

* Sakhalin-I — An offshore drilling platform

Two miles ( 3 km ) out to sea is an offshore drilling platform for gas, and clearly visible from the beach-and indeed several miles further inland-is the large Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm operated by Centrica.

This can also be done when a ship or offshore floating platform is in service.

On Feb. 24, 2010, Grijalva wrote a letter signed by 18 other Representatives calling for an investigation of the BP Atlantis offshore drilling platform due to whistleblower allegations that it was operating without approved safety documents.

It has been a center of economic growth recently, due to its proximity to projects involved with the Hibernia offshore oil platform.

The campaigned on a platform that advocated for the creation of a legacy fund for offshore oil revenues, a new deal to develop the Lower Churchill hydroelectric development, annual increase to retired public service pensions, improve high-speed internet a cellphone service in rural areas, merge the Department of Business with the Department of Innovation, Trade, and Rural Development, establish a fisheries investment and diversification fund, creation of a fisheries loan board, initiate a judicial inquiry dealing with management of the fishery and operating a marine rescue subcentre in the province.

The project will be run through a local Rwandan entity called KivuWatt, using an offshore barge platform to extract, separate and clean the gasses obtained from the lake bed before pumping purified methane via an underwater pipeline to on-shore gas turbines (" gensets ").

* Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling

At the time of the disaster, the platform accounted for approximately ten percent of North Sea oil and gas production, and was the worst offshore oil disaster in terms of lives lost and industry impact.