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60 YEARS OF OFFSHORE
Offshore milestones, 2009-2014
2009 Deepest oil/gas well drilled to 35,055 ft in the Gulf of Mexico
First-ever FDPSO at work on Azurite field offshore Republic of
Congo
2010 Petrobras becomes first operator to use FPSO in the GoM
Perdido spar goes online as world’s deepest drilling and production platform
North Amethyst field becomes Canada’s first subsea tieback
Deepwater Horizon tragedy
2011 World’s longest subsea pipeline is completed
Pazflor applies world’s first large-scale subsea separation
system
Karan marks first-ever non-associated gas development project
in Saudi Arabia
2012 First application of steel lazy wave riser technology
First deepwater development in block 31 offshore Angola starts
production
Tamar becomes the world’s longest subsea tieback
2013 Kazakhstan sector achieves first oil in Caspian Sea
Transocean sets new offshore water depth drilling record
Prirazlomnoye is the first oil production project on the Russian
arctic shelf
Valhall is the first field offshore Norway to be powered entirely
from shore
Kirinskoye, Russia’s first subsea development project, goes
onstream
2014 Mars B is the first deepwater GoM project to expand an existing
oil and gas field with significant new infrastructure
Liwan marks first-ever deepwater gas development offshore
China
Papa-Terra features first TLWP installation in South America
Offshore Magazine celebrates 60th anniversary
