Stock Photo - In tow: The oil platform Hibernia on the way to its destination (photograph taken 27.5.1997). Out of a total of nine of the world's strongest tugs, the 600,000-tonne platform is being pulled from the Newfoundland coast through the Atlantic to its location above the Hibernia Olfeld, some 315 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland. There, the largest oil platform in the world is lowered to about 80 meters deep ground and be weighted by additional ballast to almost 1.2 million tons total weight. To protect the 225-meter-tall monster from the shifting icebergs, it was equipped with a serrated coat that reaches to the bottom of the sea. Built in a bay near St.John's on Newfoundland, the platform is set to claim the first rohol in December. | usage worldwide. - St.johns/Neufundland/Kanada