Topside Explained: Key Features and Parts of Offshore Rigs

Explore what topside means for offshore rigs. Understand its structure, key components, and importance in oil extraction ...
The Financial

Johan Sverdrup drilling topside sailaway

The FINANCIAL — The 147-metre Johan Sverdrup drilling platform has been a highly visible landmark in the Haugesund townscape for the last nine months. Today, 31 May, it’s good-bye. In the afternoon, ...
Zawya

Huge platform structure for Pearl GTL sets sail

15 March 2010 DOHA: The first of two platform structures has left a J Ray McDermott fabrication yard in Dubai bound for the waters off Qatar where it will produce natural gas for the Pearl Gas to ...
BBC

Gearing up for the big lift in the North Sea

The Delta platform topside includes the helipad and the main accommodation block How do you go about removing a massive piece of infrastructure from a hostile environment like the North Sea? Oil giant ...
Zawya

Second topside for GTL project sets sail

31 October 2010 DOHA: A barge carrying the second of two Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project platform structures has left the J Ray McDermott Middle East, Inc (Mcdermott) fabrication yard in Dubai ...
BBC

Shell cleared to lift Brent Delta topside in one go

The Swiss-owned Pioneering Spirit is expected to lift the platform topside in one go next year Oil giant Shell is to press ahead with plans to remove the topside of the Brent Delta platform in a ...
Nature

Topside Ionospheric Structure at Northern Mid-latitudes after Ground Sunset in Summer

DURING the period between ground sunset and ionospheric sunset, the solar light is considerably filtered during its passage through the entire atmosphere before reaching still-illuminated ionospheric ...