Oil Production Platform

Oil Production Platform


DescriptionEnglish: Montrose Alpha Oil Production Platform - Mid North Sea
Date28 December 2009
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AuthorLee181169
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Oil Platform (Lun-A)

Oil Platform (Lun-A)


DescriptionEnglish: The Lun-A (Lunskoye-A) platform, located 15 km off the north eastern coast of Sakhalin Island, in a water depth of 48 m. It is a drilling and production platform with minimum processing facilities. the four legged concrete gravity base substructure (CGBS) was engineered and constructed in Vostochniy port by Aker Kvaerner Technology AS and Quattrogemini OY and was installed in June 2005.
Date2 July 2007
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AuthorRussian.dissident
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Science, Kazuo INAMORI


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The advancement of science and technology alone cannot make humanity happy.

- Kazuo INAMORI (1932- )

Business·Employment, Steve Jobs


The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves.

- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Life, Albert Einstein


Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Science, Albert Einstein


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Money, Chinese Proverb


金钱万能 [jīnqiánwànnéng]

- 中國俗談

Money talks.

- Chinese Proverb

almighty dollar

Love, Joan Crawford


Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford (1904-1977)

Modern art, Tom Stoppard


Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

- Tom Stoppard (1937- )

Universe, Henri Bergson


[L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.

- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Universe

Advice, Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Richelieu (1839)

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.

Money, Robert W. Sarnoff


Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

$ Robert W. Sarnoff