A massive
oil drilling station off
the Grand Banks,
Newfoundland. Because of the need to produce an
iceberg resistant design, the project was a massive engineering undertaking. The oil platform sits atop a massive
concrete gravity base structure (GBS) sitting on the ocean floor. The GBS also acts as a
crude oil reservoir and has "teeth" to protect it against icebergs, should primary iceberg diversion activities fail.
The
Hibernia offshore oil field is owned jointly by
Mobil Canada (33.125%), Chevron
Canada Resources (26.875%),
Petro-Canada (20%),
Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation (8.5%), Murphy Oil (6.5%) and Norsk Hydro (5%).