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Client
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Oryx
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Region
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Gulf of Mexico
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Location
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Viosca Knoll 826
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Water Depth
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1930 ft.
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Pipeline(s)
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Services Performed
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Project Management, Procurement, Front-End Engineering Design, Detailed Engineering, Fabrication, Marine Installation
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| Contractor |
J. Ray McDermott, Inc. |
| Award |
February, 1995 |
| Completion |
December, 1996 |
| Consultants |
Aker Rauma Offshore
Deep Oil Technology
Spars International |
| Project Manager |
Rick McCandless |
| Key Participants |
ABS |
| Prod. Capacity |
25,000 BOPD
30,000 MCFPD |
| Reserves |
50 - 75 Million Barrels of
oil equivalent |
Technology:
- Use of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) cut drawing review
from weeks to days or hours.
Innovations:
- The use of a small management team by the owners, integrated
with key team members from the contractors' organizations
and classification society, resulting in completion of the
project within original schedule requirements
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Description:
- First use of spar as a floating base for production operations.
Scope:
Oryx - CNG contract, with J. Ray McDermott being responsible
for:
- Detailed design, construction engineering and procurement
for topside facility to be installed on a spar platform
- Installation engineering for the spar hull and detailed
design of the riser buoyancy cans
- Coordinated with ABS for classification and certification
of topside facility
- Transporting the spar hull from Ingalls shipyard to location
- Upending and mooring the spar on location
- Fabrication and installation of the 3,200 s.t. deck
- Performing hull to deck hookup
- Precommissioning installation of two flexible pipeline
risers
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