Cognac: World's Tallest Offshore Oil Platform
by Allen Morrison, Asst. Editor;Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1980, Vol. 50, Issue 6, Pg. 55-59
Document Type: Feature article
Abstract:
Shell Oil's 1980 OCEA-winner is a three-sectioned design of steel fabrication and deep-sea installation. Cognac is currently the world's tallest, heaviest, and deepest-water platform, it supports the largest number of wells ever in a single platform, and its installation featured the first successful use of an underwater pile driver. The article reviews the prospects for future domestic oil production, the new recovery systems, the obstacles to speedy development, and the political context of continued dependence on foreign oil. Proposed recovery systems like the guyed tower, tension-leg platform, and submerged production system are further overshadowed by uncertainty about how many major oil fields remain in U.S. coastal waters.
Subject Headings: Offshore platforms | Guyed towers | Underwater foundations | Uncertainty principles | Submerging | Steel | Seas and oceans
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