Magnolia (oil platform)
Magnolia is an offshore oil drilling and production Extended Tension Leg Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the world's deepest ETLP, reaching Script error: No such module "convert"., beating the Marco Polo TLP by Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] In March 2018, Big Foot ETLP took over this claim in Script error: No such module "convert"..
The hull consists of four circular columns connected at the bottom by rectangular pontoons. At the base of each column, a pontoon extends outward to support two tethers, which are connected to pile foundations on the seabed. The design capacity is an estimated daily production of Script error: No such module "convert". of oil and Script error: No such module "convert". of natural gas.[2]
The Magnolia field is located approximately Script error: No such module "convert". south of Cameron, Louisiana, in Garden Banks blocks 783 and 784 in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located along the southern edge of the Titan Mini-Basin where multiple deep-water reservoir sands encounter a series of down-to-the-basin and antithetic faults adjacent to salt.[3]
See also
- Mars (oil platform)
- Gulf of Mexico
- Tension-leg platform
- Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico
- Oil platform
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