CASE STUDIES
FES International supply crucial Disconnectable Transfer Turret for Helix Producer 1
In 2008 global oil and gas producer Helix Energy began converting the Helix Producer 1 into a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for use on the Phoenix oil field, located in blocks 236 and 237 in the central Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico.
At that time, the majority of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was conducted from fixed platforms, and damage caused by bad weather or on-site emergencies such as fires, can have a significant impact for fixed platforms as downtime equates to operational disruption and potentially to significant commercial loss...
In January 2011, Andarko Petroleum Corp released news regarding a mechanical issue at its $1.3 billion Caesar/Tonga project in the Gulf of Mexico which could have potentially delayed production from mid 2011.
A test of the production riser system, which connects drilling equipment on the ocean floor to the platform on the surface, revealed that it was not working properly. Ceasar/Tonga is a joint development project that began in early 2007 as a subsea tie-back to the Constitution SPAR facility situated 190 miles off the New Orleans