Monday, May 26, 2008

Sunset in North Sea

CQ's friend - Atwood Falcon, who works in the offshore oil and gas industry, took this beautiful and breathtaking sunset in the North Sea.

Where is North Sea?
According to Wiki - ' The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European continental shelf. It is more than 600 miles (970 km) long and 350 miles (560 km) wide, with an area of around 222,000 square miles (570,000 km2).

A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North Sea including water from the Baltic Sea. The North Sea connects with the rest of the Atlantic through the Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and through the Norwegian Sea in the north...'

This is how it looks like under the sea in the offshore oil and gas field

In the oil industry, "North Sea" often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the UK "Atlantic Margin" (west of Shetland) not, strictly speaking, part of the North Sea. WOW!!!

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