The largest oil rig* in the world got placed today on its drilling spot off the Russian Pacific coast, near Sakhalin Island, north of Japan. The $12 billion, 200,000-ton structure—without counting its base—will suck up to 4.5 million tons of hydrocarbons per year in the harsh subarctic conditions of the Sea of Okhotsk.
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