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The largest oil rig in the world got placed today on its drilling spot off the Russian Pacific coast, near Sakhalin Island, north of Japan. The $12 billion, 200,000-ton structure—without counting its base—will suck up to 4.5 million tons of hydrocarbons per year in the harsh subarctic conditions of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Berkut is specially built to cope with brutal subarctic conditions. Scientists studied the effects of sea ice and it uses a new concrete ice protection belt which is a first, is cheaper and provides better protection. The platform can handle 60-foot waves, the pressure of over six-foot of ice, temperatures as low as minus 47.2 Fahrenheit and a magnitude 9 earthquake.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Biggums View PostPointless screwdriver is pointless."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler
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