Gullfaks oil field

Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Equinor.

[2] In November 2022, the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm started supplying power to the Gullfaks platforms.

[1] Gullfaks C sits 217 metres (712 ft) below the waterline and the height of the total structure measured from the sea floor is 380 metres (1,250 ft),[4] making it taller than the Eiffel Tower.

Gullfaks C holds the record [5] of the heaviest object that has ever been moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth with a total displacement between 1.4 and 1.5 million tons.

The report stated that only chance prevented the final and most serious incident on 19 May 2010 from becoming a full-scale disaster.

Petroleum production of Norway by year and oil field