The Endeavor also offers a good library, a wellness spa and massages on a floating platform.

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But the equipment needed to operate each well is too heavy to put on a floating platform, so it has to be installed on the sea-bed and run and maintained by remote-controlled submarines.

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Once the wells are completed, they are connected by flexible hoses to a floating production platform on the surface.

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Equipped with a turntable mechanism at its bow, the floating production platform can swivel a full 360 degrees in treacherous winds while pumping more than 100, 000 barrels of oil a day.

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Inside the ultraminimalist exterior lies a miraculous machine: The chassis hangs from a floating seismic platform with four-point spring suspension using a single piece of milled solid aluminum subassembly as its foundation.

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While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.

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Epson's 3D display glasses, the Moverio BT-100 have been floating around as a development platform for a couple years, and APX Labs is the latest to hack the headset.

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In May, two months ahead of schedule, the floating armada assembled by Royal Dutch Shell completed repairs on its giant Mars tension-leg platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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