At about 60 tonnes in mass, this future station would be considerably smaller than the 400-tonne international platform operated by the US, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan, but its mere presence in the sky would nonetheless represent a remarkable achievement.

The portion of the field in state waters was abandoned in 1996 with the dismantling of the two platforms operated by Chevron.

AOL Seed was an open content submission website and platform operated by AOL from 2009 to 2012, when it was closed.

In the accident on the platform, operated by the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, 167 men died.

Swiss Private is also the new platform for operation of the Lufthansa Private Jet fleet, formerly operated by Swiss European Air Lines.

Similar services are offered for selected programs by other networks, primarily using platforms operated by GoldPocket.

Another platform operated by Absheronneft drilled two more wells in 2009 with an overall output of 7-8.5 tonnes of oil.

A pair of explosions before dawn yesterday on the world's largest offshore oil platform, operated by Petrobras in the Campos Basin about 78 miles off the Brazilian coast, left one worker dead and nine missing.

In practical terms, this means investing serious money to join a platform operated in a discretionary and opaque way, with unclear and changing rules.

Archivethe.net, a shared web-archiving platform operated by Internet Memory Research, the spin-off of the Internet memory foundation (formerly European Archive Foundation).