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Gulf Island Fabrication is an American manufacturer of specialized structures and marine vessels used in the energy sector. The company builds offshore oil and gas platforms, ships and also foundations for offshore wind turbines. [1] It also provides maintenance and marine repair services in-shop and out in the field.
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) is a deepwater port in the Gulf of Mexico 29 kilometers (18 nautical miles) [1] off the coast of Louisiana near the town of Port Fourchon. LOOP provides tanker offloading and temporary storage services for crude oil transported on some of the largest tankers in the world.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
The 120,000 square foot museum, located on the riverfront in downtown Mobile, Alabama, is designed to look as if it were a ship headed into Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The museum features 90 interactive exhibits, simulators, theaters and artifact displays, complemented by artifacts and memorabilia displayed throughout "multiple decks ...
In the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, Seacor Ocean Transport conducts its operations. Seacor Holdings collaborates with the railroad company Genesee and Wyoming in a 50:50 joint venture, operating the CG Railway. Since the year 2000, this railway has facilitated rail ferry services from Mobile, Alabama, to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. [5] [6]
The ORCA series of self-propelled, self-elevating platforms was designed by Bennett Offshore working in collaboration with the Offshore Technology Development group of Keppel Offshore & Marine. These SEPs range in size from small platforms designed for the Gulf of Mexico to large units up to 115 m in length, capable of installing offshore wind ...
The joint mobile offshore base (JMOB) was a MOB concept for expeditionary warfare and humanitarian and commercial operations developed in the 1990s by McDermott International, Inc. of Arlington, Virginia. The JMOB was to be composed of five self-propelled units creating a one-mile long runway that could accommodate a fully loaded C-17.
Edison Chouest Offshore operates five shipyards: [1] North American Shipbuilding (NAS) in Larose, Louisiana was founded in 1974 on the Dixie Delta Canal running to Lake Salvador . 29°35′06″N 90°22′30″W / 29.585°N 90.375°W / 29.585; -90.375