Mad Dog (oil platform)
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Mad Dog is the name of an oil platform operating in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. It became operational in 2005, and is one of a new breed of oil drilling platforms that tap oil reserves deep beneath offshore waters.
Located beneath 4,500 feet of water some 190 miles south of New Orleans, Mad Dog is the second of four gigantic fields discovered by BP in late 1990s. It’s also one of the top 10 largest discoveries to-date in the Gulf of Mexico - and is indeed living up to its early billing as a technological wonder, representing a number of firsts in the deepwater Gulf for BP.
In 2005, the massive Mad Dog production facility, permanently moored to the seabed, began producing. The platform has the capacity to produce up to 100,000 barrels of oil and 60 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. As many as 150 drilling and production personnel operate the truss spar, which is designed to produce and drill at least 12 wells simultaneously in Mad Dog’s Green Canyon block.
Mad Dog Start Date: 2003
Platform Production Rating: 110,000 barrels of oil per day and 60 million cubic feet of gas per day
