Floating Production Storage and Offloading is a core element of the oil & gas extraction and refinement process. Here is ...

Oil is more dense than alcohol, but less dense than water. The molecules that make up the oil are larger than those that that make up water, so they cannot pack as tightly together as the water ...

Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has started oil production at its Whale floating production platform, ...

Fixed structures will likely be chosen for fields in shallower water with large recoverable reserves. Floating systems are advantageous in deep waters and for use in marginal oil fields.

The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.