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Supply companies and the political economy of platform concepts in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Published in Taran Thune, Ole Andreas Engen, Olav Wicken, Petroleum Industry Transformations, 2018
The fact that the Spar concept was developed by a community slightly separate from the dominant suppliers and then developed further and ordered by Oryx Energy, one of the youngest and smallest companies to operate in deep waters, might be a confirmation of the proposition that actors independent of established structures can often pave the way for new ideas. Shell’s repeated use of TLP, similarly, could illustrate how a company which had initial success with a given concept can exploit economies of scale by keeping to a similar solution in future developments. But the fact that at an early point both Chevron and ExxonMobil chose the Spar solution for developing new fields in deeper waters shows that the barriers to choosing entirely new concepts were not very high for major companies. In 2010, Shell took another new provisional record when it started production from a Spar platform on the Perdido field at a depth of 2,383 metres.
The global offshore pipeline construction service market 2017 – Part I
Published in Ships and Offshore Structures, 2018
Perdido is another notable deepwater development, a spar moored in the western US GoM at a water depth of 7817 ft (2383 m) six miles from Mexican waters (Figure 4). The Perdido host receives production from three fields – Great White, Silver Tip and Tobago – and still lays claim to the world's deepest subsea tieback at Tobago (9627 ft, 2935 m). Perdido's oil and gas export routes crossed numerous peaks and valleys5(Connelly et al. 2009).
Offshore oil and gas records circa 2020
Published in Ships and Offshore Structures, 2022
Perdido is another notable deepwater development, a spar moored in the western U.S. Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of 7817 ft. The Perdido host receives production from three fields (Great White, Silvertip, and Tobago) and lays claim to the world’s deepest subsea tieback and flowlines c.2020 at Tobago in 9627 ft water depth (Connelly et al. 2009).