Offshore Magazine - February 2015

Operations
Safety and operational
integrity are key
About two dozen people live aboard the Delta House FPS for two weeks at a time between crew changes, but there is space for twice that many if extra workers are needed for special jobs. A
supply boat trip to the Fourchon shore base
near Grand Isle, Louisiana takes about six
hours or a helicopter ride to the Galliano base
takes about an hour.
The Delta House host platform receives all of
the raw production from the wells and subsea
gathering system that serves three separate
fields. Onboard processing equipment uses
mainly gravity and pressure reduction to
separate the fluid’s various components and
to bring the natural gas and oil up to the
specifications of the export pipelines.
Marketing
Delta House is designed to process a wide
range of gravities and gas-oil ratios. Likewise,
the FPS can deliver its oil and gas at a range
of export pressures to suit any pipeline in the
Gulf of Mexico.

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