Specifications - Genesis, Gulf of Mexico, USA
| Participants | |
| chevron U.S.A. production company (Operator) | 56.67 percent |
| exxon Corporation | 38.38 percent |
| petrofina Delaware, Incorporated | 4.95 percent |
| Milestones | |
| project team formed | 1994/1995 |
| commenced front-end engineering | june 1995 |
| detail engineering commenced | january 1996 |
| hull fabrication commenced | may 1996 |
| project approved | june 1996 |
| topsides fabrication commenced | november 1996 |
| batch setting & Pre-drilling | november 1996 through july 1997 |
| Installation, hookup and commissioning | starting in may & june 1998 |
| first Oil | december 1998 |
| Geography | |
| Located | 150 miles south of new Orleans |
| water depth at site: | 2,590 feet |
| Statistics: Hull | |
| first drilling and production spar ever built | |
| 122ft Diameter | |
| 705ft long | |
| weighs 28,700 tons | |
| 58ft x 58ft well bay | |
| 20 well slots | |
| Statistics: mooring System | |
| 14 mooring lines, each approximately 3000ft long, composed of chain and wire rope | |
| total of about 8,400 chain links & 28,000ft of wire rope | |
| each chain link is 31.5in long, 17.6" wide, 5 in diameter and weighs 426 lbs | |
| wire rope is 5in diameter | |
| Topsides | |
| 55,000 barrels/day oil capacity | |
| 72 million standard cubic feet/day gas capacity | |
| 9 megawatt electric power capability | |
| 35 million standard cubic feet/day gas injection | |
| weighs about 17,000 tons | |
| 110-person sleeping capacity | |
| risers & subsea Wellheads | |
| up to 20 production risers, 2 export pipeline risers, and 1 drilling riser | |
| each approximately 2,650ft long to span from seafloor wellheads to the topsides | |
| 20 subsea wellheads & 2 export riser bases on seafloor arranged in 140 ft diameter circle with 20' spacing | |
| up to 12 miles of risers total; air cans alone stretch over one mile | |
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