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Two boats pass through the sea walls surrounding an oil extraction platform in Kazakhstan’s zone of the Caspian Sea. This area is known as the Kashagan Field, an offshore oil field that is estimated to have a recoverable reserve around 13 billion barrels of crude oil. However, due to harsh conditions - specifically sea ice during the winter, yearly temperature variation from −35 to 40 °C (−31 to 104 °F), extremely shallow water, and high levels of hydrogen sulfide that eventually need to be removed from the extracted oil - many consider it to be one of the most challenging oil megaprojects in the world.
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Date posted: 2015/10/25 19:10:31
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Date liked: 2015/10/26 18:10:43
83 Tumblr notes
Liked from: Daily Overview
Tagged:
aerial view 306
industrial 112
satellite imagery 107
ocean 95
maritime 58
sea 41
oil rig 5
deep sea 4
offshore platform 2
drilling 1
