Thunderhorse

Located 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, the Thunder Horse field is one of the most technologically complex, in part because of the challenging deepwater environment.

Only when you sail past the Thunder Horse production-drilling-quarters (PDQ) platform can you really appreciate the sheer scale and complexity of this mighty floating structure. The platform's topside area is the size of three football fields, packed with equipment and systems capable of processing and exporting a quarter of a million barrels of oil per day.

• Platform design: semi-submersible
• Block: Mississippi Canyon 778/822
• Platform production rating: 250,000 barrels of oil per day; 200 million cubic feet of gas per day

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