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Date: 03/05/25
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Impossible Engineering

Impossible Engineering

The Perdido Oil Rig - USA

In a remote part of the Gulf of Mexico, over 300km from the Texas shore and rising 30 storeys out of the sea, lies the floating oil platform of Perdido. Costing $3 billion, the 55,000t Perdido oil platform gathers, processes and exports oil and gas in a 50km radius. Operating in waters 2450m deep, this is the deepest oil platform on the planet.