<Li> Offshore Drilling: The Promise of Discovery takes visitors on a behind the scenes journey of the technical process of extracting oil and gas offshore . </Li> <Li> The Hall of Fame, located within the museum, recognizes those persons and technologies that took the industry to sea, such as engineering giant Brown & Root founders George and Herman Brown; Ralph Thomas McDermott, who founded the offshore drilling and platform construction company J. Ray McDermott; rig designer and drilling contractor Alden J. "Doc" Laborde; former president George H.W. Bush; and oil company tycoon Dean McGee . </Li> <Li> The Pipe Deck houses exhibits and equipment too large to be stored inside the museum, such as a blowout preventer, drill pipe, and a cementing unit . </Li> <Li> The Drill Floor is directly underneath the derrick and is where the work of drilling a hole is done . </Li>

The ocean star offshore drilling rig and museum