In May, RANGER I drilling platform collapses south of Galveston. This was the first mobile offshore drilling platform. The well was capped, and the drilling platform, dismantled. The RHIBs carried Greenpeace activists and crew members towards Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya drilling platform. The Tern oil platform is a steel jacket production and drilling platform. Kirk, Hikaru Sulu, and Chief Engineer Olson perform a space jump onto the drilling platform. The committee deemed the construction of the drilling platform "unwise" and urged no further expenditures. National consortia and government funding agencies supported IODP science and drilling platform operations. The drilling platform (DP) topside was installed in June 2018. The submersible drilling platform is supported on large pontoon-like structures. The Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. The incident happened while "Bourbon Dolphin" was anchoring the semi-submersible drilling platform "Transocean Rather". A permanent off-shore drilling platform offshore of Galveston, Texas was brought back to shore. It has also built the country's first land-based drilling platform, Ratnakar, at Hazira.