Magnolia is an offshore oil drilling and production Extended Tension Leg Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the world's deepest ETLP, reaching 1,432 m (4,700 ft), beating the Marco Polo TLP by 120 m (390 ft).[1]
The hull consists of four circular columns connected at the
bottom by rectangular pontoons. At the base of each column, a
pontoon extends outward to support two tethers, which are connected
to pile foundations on the seabed. The design capacity is an
estimated daily production of 50,000 barrels 50,000 bbl
(7,900 m3) of oil
and 150,000,000 cu ft (4,200,000 m3) of
natural gas. [2]
The Magnolia field is located approximately 180 mi
(290 km) south of Cameron, Louisiana, in Garden Banks
blocks 783 and 784 in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located along the
southern edge of the Titan Mini-Basin where multiple deep-water
reservoir sands encounter a series of down-to-the-basin and
antithetic faults adjacent to salt.[3]
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