I hadn't looked at this site. Offshore magazine, Oil and Gas Journal, and LNG observer all seem to be affiliated. You have to have a subscription for some things on the site, but you can get quite a lot of free stuff, including a big poster with all kinds of statistics about the various off-shore oil platform.

Right Bob, google (Tethered Offshor Oil Platforms) and you get 78,700 replies. None of them are even remotely related to the discussion. There are thousands about offshore oil platforms, or oil, or platforms, or thethered but nothing that even came close to answering our question. Except the one I posted which I found by using Google. But it did not completely answer the question. It was only about carbon fiber tethers and how they were made. I could find nothing addressing the question Gail and I were discussing. Nothing Bob, but if you can find a page discussing how platforms are tethered, how deepwater smaller platforms are tethered, and whether the platform is allowed to move or not, then please post it.

Bob, did you actually look at any of the pages? Or, as I suspect, you just saw the number of pages that fit at least one of the words in the search phrase? Then you replied that you got thousands of hits? It doesn't matter if you got a million hits, what matters is what information was on the pages.

Do the search again Bob. Then tell me which page answeres the question Gail and I were discussing. Then tell me how many pages you had to examine before you found it. I examined, not thousands, but dozens that looked the most promising. NONE of them even remotely addressed the question Gail and I were discussing.

Why are you such a dick head Bob? Must you always be so damn sarcastic. This is not a list where we try to put each other down. We are trying to gather information that pertains to peak oil but there are always a few really smart asses in the crowd who try to show their superiority by being an absolute smart ass.

Ron Patterson