An oil platform is a structure located in the ocean that allows natural gas or oil to be extracted from the ocean subsoil.
Platform comes from the French plate-forme . Among its various uses and meanings, the most common refers to an upper floor or horizontal board that is elevated above the ground and that functions as a support for people or things.
The platform is also the front and rear part of the carriages , through which you access the seating area. Linked to transportation, the term is also used to name the front part of the bus.
In this area we cannot ignore the term rotating platform that is used to refer to a device that exists in various types of locomotives or trains and whose clear mission is to ensure that they can reverse their direction when rotating on a vertical axis. .
A political platform
A platform can be the program or set of demands of a political party, union group or civil organization. For example: "Our platform is based on labor rights for all people."
In this way we can find examples of this meaning of the term platform that we are addressing. Thus, we can highlight the Spanish Platform for Educational Freedom ( PLE ) that clearly fights to ensure that families who opt for family education or flexible education are not judged in the face of a current educational system that she considers ineffective, anachronistic and unsuccessful.
Another perfect example of this type of platform can be the Platform for Civil Disobedience that has been created in recent times and that defends the peaceful and creative protests of society in the face of repressive actions by democratic governments against the people themselves. .
In a platform video game, the protagonist has to advance, climb or jump through different levels.
The continuation of the continents
The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of the continents, covered by seas that are not too deep. This platform begins on the coast and ends in a growing slope that is known as the continental barrier .
Behind this barrier, the seabed is called the continental slope . Then the continental rise appears, which joins the abyssal plain (the deep sea floor).
Platform in computing and video games
In computing , a platform is the hardware on which software can be executed or developed.
On the other hand, we talk about platform games to name the genre of video games where the protagonist must advance, jump or climb through different levels.
Oil facilities
Finally, we can mention that an oil platform is a set of facilities located in the ocean to obtain oil or natural gas from the marine subsoil. These platforms allow you to drill into the subsoil until you reach the area where the oil or gas is located.
These types of platforms can be classified based on their support systems or what their function is. In the first case, we can establish that there are the so-called fixed platforms, the semi-submersible ones and the self-elevating ones.
Regarding the aforementioned function, there are five varieties of platforms. Thus, we find those for drilling, those for linking, those for housing, those for production and those for compression. Of all of them, the most common are the first ones that are in charge, as their name indicates, of drilling wells.