Oilfield services companies provide the tools and equipment required in the exploration of oil including drilling rigs, offshore rigs and transport equipment.
Offshore production means any platform structure that is affixed temporarily or permanently to offshore submerged lands and that houses equipment to extract petroleum and natural gas from the ocean or lake floor.
Moreover, the data could be useful in determining safe noise limits for other ocean-based equipment as well, ranging from offshore oil rigs to wind turbines to ocean freighters.
And as one who doesn't do valve design, drilling bits, precision flow monitoring or pigging equipment, lots of the kit on display at the Offshore Europe exhibition in Aberdeen this week leaves me a bit cold.