North America

Atlantis Platform,
The Atlantis oil and gas production platform – the deepest moored oil and gas facility in the world.	The Atlantis platform is located in over 7,000ft of water, nearly 200 miles south of New Orleans.	Hurricane Rita building into a category five hurricane in September 2005. Work on Atlantis was seriously disrupted by the 2005 hurricane season – which had already seen Hurricane Katrina rip through the Gulf in August.
Atlantis topsides modules were fabricated in Morgan City before being integrated at Ingleside, Texas.	Thunder Horse was found listing when the crew returned after evacuating for Hurricane Dennis; another BP project severely delayed by the Gulf's weather in 2005.

Baldpate,
Artist's impression of the GB 260 platform in position.	The Baldpate platform in the Gulf of Mexico.	The GB 260 compliant tower, at the Gulf Marine Fabricators yard in Ingleside, TX.
The towing of the base section to the site.	The topsides were fabricated at Aker Gulf, Mexico.	Installation of the Baldpate jacket.

Blind Faith Subsea Development,
Topsides of the Blind Faith development.	The Blind Faith hull under construction.	Blind Faith deep draught semisubmersible.
Design of the Blind Faith semisubmersible platform.	Dockwise's Tern was used to transport the Blind Faith FPU.

Bombax Pipeline Development
The Bombax pipeline project consists of 63km of offshore pipeline.	The MSV Q4000 used on the Bombax project.	Field layout of the Bombax pipeline.
Bombax barge below the MSV Q4000.	Bombax multipurpose tower.	The valving and piping is contained within a single 400t subsea manifold.
The subsea manifold being lowered.	Bombax arrival at landfall.

Brutus,
The Brutus field is located 165 miles south west of New Orleans in the Mexican Gulf.	The derrick barge Hermod was used to carry out the installation of the Brutus field.	The DB-16 installed the gas pipeline for the Brutus oil and gas project.
Schematic of the Brutus layout.	Open-truss Brutus modules under construction at J Ray McDermott’s fabrication yard in Morgan City, Louisiana.	The hull for Shell's deepwater tension leg platform Brutus arrived at Aker's Ingleside yard in Texas (the integration site) in January 2001.

Cameron Highway Oil Transport System,
McDermott's DB50 installing the HI-A5 deck.	The Cameron Highway is a deepwater crude oil transport system which brings multiple production streams from the Louisiana Gulf to Texas City and Port Arthur.	Heerema Marine used its Hermod heavy lift vessel to install the jacket, cellar deck and the bridge that links the new SS332B plat form with the original SS332A.
Installation of the SS332B deck.

Cantarell Oil Field,
The Ta'Kuntah FSO is the world's second-largest operating tanker, with 2.3 million barrels of storage space.	Ta'Kuntah has the world's highest cargo-loading rate - 800,000 barrels of oil a day.	The Cantarell jacket construction, in the Bay of Campeche.
Bechtel is supervising the construction of 39 new platforms and modifications to 36 existing platforms in the Cantarell field.	Ta'Kuntah is longer than three football fields and taller than a 20-storey building.	The $5bn three-year project was scheduled to bring new production onstream sometime during the year 2000.

Canyon Express Gas Field
The Glomar Explorer was used for drilling on the Aconcagua.	Schematic of the field layout.	The Discoverer 536, used for drilling on the Aconcagua.
The Discover 7 Seas, used for drilling on the Aconcagua.

Cascade and Chinook Subsea Development,
Location of Cascade and Chinook oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.	A conceptual diagram of the planned Cascade and Chinook subsea architecture with FPSO.	The subsea unbilicals were supplied by Aver Kværner and use carbon-fibre technology.
This APL loading on Pierce will be similar to that used on the Cascade and Chinook development.

Constitution / Ticonderoga Field,
Kerr McGee’s Constitution field is located in Green Canyon blocks 679 and 680, approximately 190 miles southwest of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.	Constitution was appraised by drilling 11 wells into predominantly oil-bearing sands in seven reservoirs.	The Constitution spar's hull, manufactured by Technip at Pori, Finalnd is 98ft in diameter and approximately 550ft long.
The Constitution is based on the Kerr McGee’s Gunnison spar model and is capable of processing 40,000bd of oil and 200MMcfd of gas.	The Constitution spar's hull weighs 14,800t and supports a 10,770t topside payload.	Moored in 4,970ft of water, the spar will initially handle production from the Constitution field and the tied-back Ticonderoga field.
Constitution truss spar being fabricated

Cottonwood Field,
Map showing the location of the Cottonwood field.	Cottonwood's reception facilities being installed.	A subsea tree being installed on the Cottonwood field.
Cottonwood field development diagram.	Cottonwood equipment layout.

Deep Panuke Gas Field
Deep Panuke drilling location map.	A map showing the location of Deep Panuke.	Artist's impression of the Deep Panuke position of offshore facilities.
The Rowan Gorilla V Heavy Duty Hostile Environment (HDHE) jack-up rig.	The Rowan Gorilla V drilling on Deep Panuke.	Diagram of the export facilities.

Devils Tower Gas Field, Gulf of Mexico
Well no 3 was drilled in June 2000, using the semisubmersible Homer Ferrington, in 5,610ft of water.

Genesis,
The spar platform hull was delivered in June 1998.	Transshelf moved the main sections of the production spar Genesis from Finland, to the US Gulf, in just 24 days.	The Genesis hull travels through the Corpus Christi shipping channel, passing Cline's Landing condominium complex in Port Aransas, Texas.
Towing the Genesis hull into place, in the Gulf of Mexico.	The Genesis hull, as it begins the 'uprighting' process.	The Genesis hull just after it was 'uprighted', with crane barge in the background.
The 122ft-diameter 'uprighted' Genesis hull.	The Genesis spar platform.

Genghis Khan Development,
Genghis Khan development location.	The Genghis Khan production manifold.	The Paul Romano rig used to drill at Genghis Khan.
The CR Luigs, used to drill the discovery well.

Glider, Gulf of Mexico
Shell has developed Glider using two multiphase production wells tied back 7 miles to the Brutus Tension Leg Platform (TLP), located in Green Canyon Block 158.	The pipeline end terminal handling system.	Pipelines were laid by the Skandi Navica deep water reeled pipelay vessel.

Greater Angostura, Eastern Venezuela Basin
The Greater Angostura field is located about 37km east of Trinidad and Tobago in the Eastern Venezuela Basin.	The Greater Angostura field development is part of Trinidad Offshore Block 2c.	Geological profile of the main reservoirs.
Central processing platform being installed at Greater Angostura Field.	CAD drawing of hydraulic actuators on choke valves on the platform.	CAD drawing of wellhead platform.
CAD drawing of multiphase flow meters.

Gyrfalcon,
The 15,000psi Gyrfalcon subsea tree.	Installation of the Gyrfalcon subsea tree.	A close-up of the installation of the Gyrfalcon subsea tree.
Close-up of the Gyrfalcon subsea tree.	Schematic of the Gyrfalcon project, with the subsea system linking to the Boxer platform.	Schematic of the Gyrfalcon development.
The methanol and chemical-injection pumping system.

Hebron Oil Project,
The Hebron Oil Project Concept	The produced oil will be offloaded to shuttle tankers for transport to the existing distribution system.	In 2002 the Hebron oil project was shelved by original operator Chevron because of low oil prices and 'technical difficulties'.

Hibernia,
A topside drilling cabin.	Aerial view of the matted topsides and the gravity base structure at Bull Arm.	The gravity base structure (GBS) at the deepwater site consists of a 105.5m concrete caisson, constructed using high-strength concrete, reinforced with steel rods and pre-stressed tendons.
The topsides at Bull Arm.	Positioning the topsides on the gravity base structure.	Tow out of the Hibernia rig.

Hickory,
Location map of the Hickory field.	A 3D seismic image of Hickory. The top of the salt is in blue, while the base of the salt is in orange.	Extended leg jack-up Glomar Baltic 1, drilling the discovery well.
The underside of the cellar deck.	Ten cranes were used to lift the cellar deck.	Lifting of the cellar deck.
The cellar deck weighs 500t.

Holstein Oil and Gas Development,
The field came on stream in 2005, only 42 months after the project was sanctioned.	The hard tank was constructed in Finland and wet towed to the US on the semisubmersible heavy lift vessel Black Marlin.	The topsides' North module contains the process equipment while the South module contains crew accommodation and three gas turbine generators.
The first six wells were brought onstream in early 2005, and a further nine re-entry and drill operations will be carried out.	After lifting the various tanks into place, the truss spar was upended and wet-towed to its proper location and moored.	The total structure has a displacement of 105,000t and a maximum payload of 47,000t.

Hoover Diana,
Schematic of the Hoover Diana development, showing the floating and subsea systems.	For the subsea development wells, Exxon will use the Marine 700 semisubmersible drilling rig.	An artist's impression of the Marine 700 semisubmersible deepwater drilling unit in operation.
The Saipem 7000, prior to departure for the Hoover Diana project.	Installation of the topsides on the Hoover Diana platform was carried out by the Saipem 7000 crane vessel.

Horn Mountain Field, Gulf of Mexico
The Horn Mountain drilling rig.	Transporting the hull from Finland.	The hull prior to installation.
Installing the topsides at Horn Mountain.	Mating the hull with the topsides at Horn Mountain.	The Horn Mountain hull with the balder in the background.
Horn Mountain air can riser systems.

Independence Hub, Gulf of Mexico
The Independence Hub is a development based on six natural gas anchor fields in the Atwater Valley, DeSoto Canyon and Lloyd Ridge areas of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.	The fields will be tied-back to the platform through producer-owned subsea flowline systems.	The platform, which is operated by Anadarko, has excess payload capacity to tie-back up to ten additional fields.

K2 Field,
The K2 field was originally discovered in 1999 by Conoco and in 2000 ENI became the operator.	The K2 field consists of the M14 and M20 reservoirs with turbidite sheet deposits of Miocene age.	K2 is one of the first deepwater subsalt Miocene fields to start production from reservoir depths beneath 25,000ft sub-sea true vertical depth.

Kaskida Field
Devon Energy signed a $690m contract with Seadrill in 2006 to use the West Sirius rig for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.	The Kaskida field is situated in block 292 in Keathley Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.	Geological forms in the Gulf of Mexico became accessible to crude and oil companies in 2006.

King Field, Gulf of Mexico
The King booster assembly consists of a manifold base skid supporting the pump module itself. Each of the 70t assemblies were located over 3.6m-diameter suction piles.	The King Field is one of three fields producing from the Marlin TLP and represents more than half of Marlin TLP production.	The King complex lies 18 miles from Marlin in the Viosca Knoll area, approximately 84 miles southeast of New Orleans.
The deepwater 16-mile-long power umbilical consists of a main dynamic and an infield umbilical.

Knotty Head Field,
The Knotty Head field lies in 3,500ft of water close to the Chevron-operated Tahiti and Tonga discoveries.	The Knotty Head well was drilled by the TransOcean Discoverer Spirit drillship.

Ku-Maloob-Zaap Field,
The Ha-Ku-S platform on the KMZ oilfield.	Oslo-based owner-operator BW Offshore converted the ultralarge crude carrier Berge Enterprise into a 2.2-million-barrel capacity Yuum K'ak' Naab (Lord of the Sea) FPSO.	The FSPO Yuum K'ak' Naab sailing from Singapore.
The KMZ offshore loading system.

Llano,
The Llano field, discovered in 1998, is tied back to the Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP).	Schematic of the Llano field.	The Llano field is located in the Gulf of Mexico, in Garden Banks blocks 385 and 386, approx. 200 miles southwest of New Orleans.
All flowline installation activities were performed by the Derrick Barge No. 50 (DB50) utilizing J-Lay installation methods.	Dedicated production capacity at Auger is 25,000 barrels of oil and 75 million ft³ of gas per day.

Longhorn Gas Field
The Longhorn Gas Field is situated in the Gulf of Mexico's Mississippi Canyon, which is located about 60 miles off the Louisiana coast.	During its initial years of production, the Longhorn Gas Field is expected to produce approximately 200 million cubic feet of gas per day.	The Canyon Express gas field in the Mississippi Canyon.

Mad Dog Field,
The Mad Dog drilling unit is located in 5,000ft to 7,000ft of water in Green Canyon blocks 825, 826 and 782.	The deck was designed around the heaviest hook load available (around 8,000t).	The field is being developed by 12 wells produced with a single-piece truss spar.
The fabrication of the spar hull commenced in Finland in July 2002.	The trus spar took three weeks to travel from Finland to Passagoula, Mississippi, on the Mighty Servant 1.	Upending the Mad Dog truss spar.
Mad Dog truss spar hard tank sections.

Magnolia Field, Gulf of Mexico
The Augur TLP, which will form part of the oil export infrastructure.	The Shell Enchilada platform, which will be part of the export infrastructure.	A comparason between Magnolia and other TLPs.
Magnolia location map.	The Deepwater Pathfinder that made the discovery.	An artist’s impression of the Magnolia TLP.

Manatee Field, Gulf of Mexico
Shell's Bullwinkle platform.	Schematic of the Manatee development.	Map of the Angus, into which Manatee feeds.
Schematic of the Angus area.	The MacTree subsea system.

Marco Polo Field
The Marco Polo platform produced its first oil in March 2004.	The hull of the world's deepest water TLP en route from South Korea to Gulf of Mexico.	The Marco Polo field is located in Green Canyon block 608, 160 miles south of New Orleans.
The Marco Polo hull supports topsides over three deck levels.	The platform is a Moses TLP, designed by MODEC International and Sea Engineering.	The oil and gas are exported by a pipeline system owned by GulfTerra.
Topsides being installed on the Marco Polo platform.

Mardi Gras Oil and Gas Transportation System,
16in wye sled assembly for the Mardi Gras transportation system in the Omega yard.	The end terminal for the Mardi Gras pipeline.	V-testing the 16in jumper.
Seabed topography in the Atlantis area.	Mardi Gras PLET (pipeline end terminal) and jumper during testing.	Artist's impression of the Thunder Horse platform.

Mars,
The Mars tension leg platform on location in Mississippi Canyon block 807 in 2,940ft of water.	Schematic of the topside of the Mars TLP.	The cost of the Mars development for the initial project phase was approximately $1bn
Mars pipelines and their capacities.

Matterhorn Field, Gulf of Mexico
Matterhorn mini tension leg platform ready to sail from Keppel Fels yard, Singapore.	Artist's impression of the completed Matterhorn platform.	The base of the Matterhorn hull.
The top of the Matterhorn hull where the topsides mate.	Installing the tendon attachment limbs on the Matterhorn platform.

Mensa,
Location map. Mensa is located 140 miles south-east of New Orleans and encompasses the Mississippi Canyon blocks 686, 687, 730 and 731.	Mensa Schematic. When it came on stream in July 1997, Mensa was the deepest production well in the world although this has since been superseded by Marlim Sul.	A subsea development schematic.
The subsea production manifold.	Schematic of the subsea tree. The three subsea trees provide the interface between the wellheads and the infield flowlines.	The Mensa subsea production system and the subsea tree.

Mizzen Prospect Flemish Pass Basin
Statoil brought the harsh-environment semi-submersible Henry Goodrich drilling rig to offshore Newfoundland to allow for easy drilling of the second well on Mizzen.	Surveying Statoil facilities.	The Hibernia field, where Statoil is already operating, is close to Mizzen.

Morpeth,
Testing operations on the Morpeth no 1 well.	The Morpeth no 1 well flowed at 9,300 barrels of oil per day, when tested.	Artist's impression of the Morpeth tension leg platform (TLP). Tendon separation is a result of the base pontoons, with a platform displacement of 10,000t.
Towing of the Morpeth SeaStar TLP hull, from Houma to the Morpeth field in the Gulf of Mexico.	Installation of the SeaStar mini-TLP, used at Morpeth.	Installation of the topsides. The topsides have a full processing capability and measure 33.5m².
The Morpeth TLP at night.	The SeaStar mini-TLP on the Morpeth field.

Na Kika Oil and Gas Fields,
The Na Kika semi-submersible is based on four square steel columns, connected by four rectangular steel pontoons.	The Na Kika field was completed as subsea developments tied back to a centrally-located, permanently moored floating host facility.	Map of Na Kika.
Allseas' Solitaire, which will be used for pipelay on the Na Kika.	Construction of the Na Kika deck.	Construction of the Na Kika hull.
Schematic of the Na Kika field.	The Lorelay, which will be used for pipelaying on the Na Kika

Nansen and Boomvang Gas Fields,
Nansen/Boomvang during installation.	The spar, being fabricated at Pori by Aker.	The Boomvang/Nansen spar.
Map of the Boomvang/Nansen area.	Schematic of the Boomvang/Nansen development.	The Boomvang and Nansen spars under construction.
The CSO Deep Blue, which will lay the pipeline on Nansen/Boomvang.	Installation of Nansen/Boomvang.

Neptune,
Recoverable reserves at the Neptune field are estimated to range between 100 and 150 million barrels of oil equivalent.	Topsides installation. The spar supports a three-level integrated deck above the top of the hull, consisting of a clear workover deck, a mezzanine production deck and a main production deck.	An initial appraisal well (Neptune-2) was drilled in 1997. In order to delineate the field, the operator subsequently drilled four more appraisal wells, with two sidetracks.
The Neptune facility will have a design capacity to produce up to 50,000 barrels of oil and 50 million cubic feet of gas a day.

Oooguruk
The Oooguruk drill site in June 2008.	The Oooguruk flowline onshore in June 2008.	The Oooguruk Tie-in Pad in June 2008.

Perdido Regional Host Development,
The Perdido spar schematic. The spar will be moored in 7,817ft (2,383m) of water.	The Perdido Regional Host development lies in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles south of Freeport (Texas).	The Perdido spar will be the deepest spar production facility in the world and the first with DVA (Direct Vertical Access).
The development lies in the Perdido Foldbelt, in the remote western Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles south of Galveston.	Perdido geologic conditions are different from areas that have previously produced hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico.	The Perdido regional concept will reduce the number and size of the facilities and operations in this challenging frontier area.

Petronius,
Building of the Petronius module, at Houma.	The DB50, before the south-module accident.	The jacket supports topsides weighing 7,500t.
New topsides being towed to site.	The Saipem 7000, preparing to perform the topsides lift of the replacement south module.

Ram Powell,
The Ram Powell tension leg platform (TLP) is located in 3,214ft of water at Viosca Knoll, block 956, in the Gulf Of Mexico.	The Sea-Aker Star tows the Ram Powell TLP to site. The TLP is 3,570ft high, from the seafloor to the crown block of the drilling rig.	The Sea-Aker Star, with the Ram Powell TLP in the background.
The Mighty Servant 2, with the Belleli-built Ram Powell hull loaded.	Towing of the TLP, out into the Gulf Of Mexico.	Platform integration, taking place at the Aker-Gulf marine yard, in Ingleside, Texas.

Red Hawk, Gulf of Mexico
The Red Hawk field has been developed using the world's first cell spar facility.	The largest heavy-lift device in the Gulf of Mexico hoists the 7,200-ton Red Hawk cell spar from barge to water.	With both wells on stream, Kerr McGee estimate that production will peak at 120 million ft³/day.
The Red Hawk cell spar's hull is formed by seven hollow tubes, each 20ft in diameter, used to provide both stability and buoyancy.	The hull weighs 7,200t and is enough to accommodate an initial 3,600t of topsides payload.	The topsides consists of three decks: the main (top) deck, the production (middle) deck, and the spar deck.

Sable Offshore Energy Project,
Artist's impression of the Thebaud central facilities platform.	The Rowan Gorilla II, in Halifax.	The Galaxy II jack-up rig, prior to deployment on the Sable field.
Jacket loading, onto the S7000 crane vessel.	The lifting of the Venture jacket by one of the S7000 twin 7000t capacity cranes.	The jackets, having been loaded onto the S7000 crane vessel.
The Venture jacket being installed offshore.

Serrano and Oregano,
The Augur TLP, used for the production of the Serrano Oregano fields.	The Transocean Sedco Forex’s semisubmersible Maianas, which drilled the discovery well on GB 472 in 1999.	Map of the Serrano Oregano field.
A development schematic of the Serrano Oregano field.	Schematic of the Paul Remano, which was used to drill the discovery well on Oregano.	The dynamically positioned DB 50. This completed the installation of Shell's first electrically heated pipe-in-pipe flowlines, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shenzi Field,
The Shenzi oil and gas field will be developed by a standalone tension leg platform.	The initial Shenzi field development will consist of seven producing wells, and the full field development is expected to have up to 15 producing wells.	The proposed Shenzi facilities, wells, and completions are proven designs that have been successfully implemented in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
BHP Billiton's deepwater Shenzi oil and gas field lies in the Gulf of Mexico in Green Canyon Blocks 609, 610, 653, and 654, approximately 120 miles from the coast of Louisiana.	Shenzi oil will be exported via a newbuild pipeline to Ship Shoal 332. The 20in-diameter line will be 83 miles long.

Tahiti,
The appraisal programme confirmed that the reservoir in Tahiti extends over a distance of three miles.	The Tahiti topside module.	Tahiti's Technip-designed deepwater spar hull will be approximately 170m long, with a diameter of 39m.
The Glomar Explorer was one of the drilling rigs used in the Tahiti development programme.	Transocean Discoverer Deep Seas was also used as part of Tahiti's appraisal programme.	The DB50 was used for Tahiti's subsea installation.
Tahiti flotation support system.

Tahoe,
Location map. The Tahoe Unit encompasses blocks 783 and 827 of the Viosca Knoll area, in the Gulf of Mexico.	A diverless repair was successfully made in 1996, on a flowline, in Shell Offshore's Tahoe Phase I development.	Tahoe field development diagram. A new Gulf of Mexico gas production record was achieved by the South-East Tahoe well when it produced at a rate of 119MMcf/day.

Tanzanite,
A map showing tanzanite and other subsalt reservoirs.	The Rowan Odessa, flaring during the discovery well test.	The two jack up rigs used for the development.
Testing of the Tanzanite reservoir.	Testing equipment on-board the Rowan Odessa.	Well testing.
Two jack up rigs were used to carry out the well testing.

Terra Nova,
The Terra Nova field layout schematic.	The Sea Sorceress was the only Canadian vessel able to support Seacore's dredging equipment .	The Seacore team are seen here running in the riser.
Dredging work was carried out by a Boskalis suction dredger.	The Queen of the Netherlands has a dredgehead with a width of 6.5m. The deployment arm has a diameter of 1.2m.	The Terra Nova FPSO left to dry dock, in South Korea, in May of 1999.

Thunder Hawk Field,
The floating production system at Thunder Hawk.	The Marianas, which carried out well drilling operations at Thunder Hawk.	The Caesar pipelay vessel will be responsible for laying the flow and export lines.
The Boa Sub C Vessel will be used for installation support.

Thunder Horse Field, Gulf of Mexico
The Thunder Horse field is located in Mississippi Canyon Blocks 776, 777 and 778, in the Boarshead Basin, and is the largest field in the Gulf of Mexico.	The Thunder Horse discovery well was drilled in 1999 by the drillship Discoverer Enterprise.	Thunder Horse listing after the passage of Hurricane Dennis in 2005.
Thunder Horse being transported.

Troika,
Troika was developed, using a compact eight-slot subsea manifold, tied back to Shell's Bullwinkle platform, 14 miles away.	Artist's impression of the Troika field development.	Subsea control ports.
The Troika template/manifold system measures 45ft-long by 31ft-wide.	Installation of the Troika manifold.	To allow installation using the bottom-tow method, the flowlines were fabricated in four seven-mile lengths.
Alcatel's MS Stanelco was used for the cable-laying operations.

Typhoon,
A map of the typhoon field.	The TLP central column under construction.	Roll-up of the TLP central column.
Construction of the TLP central column.	The TLP deck.	Production systems on the deck.
Artist's impression of the TLP.

Ursa
The Ursa TLP hull.	The flex-yoke deployment was completed in three stages. This picture shows stage two.	The Ursa TLP, ready to be towed out to the Ursa field.
Installation of the Ursa accommodation module.	Installation of the Ursa modules.	Lifting of the Ursa modules: the quarters module.
Towing of the Ursa TLP out to the field.	The Ursa unit is located approximately 130 miles south-east of New Orleans.

White Rose Oil and Gas Field,
The Sea Rose FPSO on the water.	The Sea Rose FPSO.	The Tieback holes.
An approaching tanker.

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