Red Hawk artificial reef

OE Staff
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

In this video, Anadarko gives a closer look of its Red Hawk project.

Red Hawk was the world's first cell spar and began production in 2004 in 5300 feet of water in Garden Banks Block 877, approximately 210 mi. south of Lafayette, Louisiana.

After successfully producing the natural gas resources from the targeted reservoirs, the decision was made to reef the hull of the facility and recycle the topsides. In 2014, Anadarko became the first operator in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to successfully decommission a spar facility, giving the Red Hawk cell spar a new life as an artificial reef.

In October, InterMoor completed the decommissioning of the Red Hawk, making it the deepest floating production platform to date to be decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico and the first to be decommissioned in the “Rigs-to-Reefs” program, which required the spar to be laid down on its side on the seafloor, according to InterMoor.

To decommission the large spar, work had to be split between Garden Banks, block 876, in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 5200ft, the original spar site, and the reefing site at Eugene Island, Block 384, at a depth of 430ft.

Read more:

Deepest GoM decom job complete

Categories: Production North America Decommissioning Gulf of Mexico

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