PLATFORMS AND ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS 



Platforms are the center of offshore petroleum activity, and the most 

 obvious feature associated with it. There now are 13 platforms in the 

 Santa Barbara Channel on 9 Federal and state leases. Sixty-three Federal 

 leases remain to be developed in the Santa Barbara Channel. Thus, planners 

 must consider the environmental impacts incurred by platforms. The loca- 

 tion of platforms are presented in tables because most of them did not fit 

 within the boundaries of the inventory maps. All fixed-production platforms 

 and artificial islands were included in the inventory. No movable drilling 

 rigs, such as the three now operating in Southern California, were included. 



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