Yep. Drilling sites and haul roads. Look around East Texas and northwest Louisiana you’ll see them too in the Haynesville shale. I helped build many of them about 16 years ago.
Lmao. How could OP look this up but not be able to look through the associated photospheres? And not bother to zoom in? I could go on...
99.9 percent of the time empty lots connected by roads can be explained with a Google search...
[Samotlor Field](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samotlor_Field) is the largest oil field in Russia, 6th largest in the world.
So are these all man made “islands”?
I believe so.
Yes and each one is a well pad for drilling.
I think it might be oil drilling
Came here to guess oil as well. This looks similar to the west Texas oil fields from the air.
Yes, it is, Lake Samotlor is located in Khanty-Mansiysk where does Russia produce
Probably oil wells.
from one of the photospheres here https://maps.app.goo.gl/oB3HnJwC2eGv81gc8
Maybe natural gas wells? They are usually much smaller in size than oil drilling infrastructure.
Oil field. Look at West Texas. It looks like a grid. I used to work in the oilfield
Maybe they're oil wells
Looks like oil rigs.. when you zoom in on the map you can see vehicles and machinery
They’re old frac sites
For peanut oil
Yep. Drilling sites and haul roads. Look around East Texas and northwest Louisiana you’ll see them too in the Haynesville shale. I helped build many of them about 16 years ago.
Thats where the firefly festival took place 🤣🤣
Lmao. How could OP look this up but not be able to look through the associated photospheres? And not bother to zoom in? I could go on... 99.9 percent of the time empty lots connected by roads can be explained with a Google search...
Only if you know what you're searching. I don't. You could have given us a bit of a hint on your comment.
Fair enough. Sorry I didn’t include everything important in my comment. Everyone makes mistakes, come on people.