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Uncommon card · Science
Oil platform, an Uncommon card
An oil platform, also called an oil rig, offshore platform, or oil production platform, is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Oil platform quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oil platform card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Depending on the ______, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or float.
Answer
circumstances. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or float. From the Oil platform article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fluorescent lamp. Fluorescent lamp 85 · Antenna 82 · Oil platform 79 · Mary Edwards Walker 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Many oil platforms will also have facilities to accommodate the workers, although it is also common to have a separate accommodation platform linked by bridge to the production platform.
- Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf, though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters, and inland seas.
- Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or float.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oil platform article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Oil platform
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oil platform (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Russian.dissident, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
