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Game Info[]
Advanced sea improvement. Requires Refrigeration.
- Access:
Oil strategic resource (sea-based)
- Effect:
- +3 Production
- +3
Strategy[]
Like the land-based Oil Well, the Offshore Platform grants access to water-based sources of 
Oil and gives a large 
Production bonus to nearby cities. Notably, it requires Refrigeration on the edge of the Modern Era instead of Biology, meaning these sources of Oil are connected slightly later than those on land. Constructing it requires one Work Boat.
Civilopedia entry[]
The offshore platform is an important late-game improvement as it provides access to the highly-prized oil resource, but only when that resource is in the ocean (workers construct wells to access oil that is on land). Work boats are consumed when they construct an offshore platform.
Gallery[]
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Offshore Platform in game
See also[]
- Offshore Platform in other games
| Civilization V Improvements [edit] | |
|---|---|
| Standard | Camp • Farm • Fishing Boats • Fort • Lumber Mill • Mine • Offshore Platform • Oil Well • Pasture • Plantation • Quarry • Railroad • Road • Trading Post |
| Unique | Brazilwood Camp  • Chateau • Feitoria • Kasbah • Moai1 • Polder  • Terrace Farm1
|
| Great People | Academy • Citadel • Customs House • Holy Site • Landmark • Manufactory
|
| Scenario specific | Hadrian's Wall • Motte and Bailey • Pontoon Bridge • Tipi • Wajo |
1 Requires a DLC
 Added in the Gods & Kings expansion pack. Added in the Brave New World expansion pack. | |