The procedures of offshore oil drilling are simple but have terrible effects on the evironment. The steps in offshore oil drilling are finding the drilling site, making the hole and inserting casing, drilling into the casing and then into the ground, cementing the casing sections into place, connecting the blowout preventer and marine riser on top of the well head, drilling the rest of the well, and determining if the well will produce oil(oil process 1). the first step in the process is deciding where to begin drilling. The company will hire an ocean surveyor who takes a seismic survey vessel out to the ocean. The boat will scan underneath the ocean floor and examine the sediment formations. This process is important it allows drilling to
