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Offshore structures (Fig. 2.1) with their facilities are used to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, or to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing.
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Jia, J. (2017). Offshore Structures Versus Land-Based Structures. In: Modern Earthquake Engineering . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31854-2_2
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