Devil's Tower (oil Platform)
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Devils Tower is a deep-water oil and gas production Spar
oil platform An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms w ...
located in the
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and named after
Devils Tower National Monument Devils Tower (also known as Mato Tipila or Bear Lodge) is a butte, laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett, Wyoming, Hulett and Sundance, Wyoming, Sundance in Crook County, Wyomi ...
. Devils Tower is located in block 773 of the
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region of the Gulf of Mexico. Until 2010 it was the record holder for being located in the deepest water for a production truss spar (this record was broken by Royal Dutch Shell's Perdido platform). It was completed at the end of 2003. Originally it was built for and operated by Dominion Exploration which sold its Gulf of Mexico holdings to
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which now operates the platform. The platform is owned by Williams (NYSE: WMB) The facility was built by J. Ray McDermott and is located above the seabed.


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