... of Exploration and Production. Nine subsea dry completions and one subsea dry manifold center house the underwater production equipment in approximately 150 meter water depth. A storage and processing' tanker is permanently moored to an articulated production tower located 800 meters from the manifold center...

... and it was not until the 1960's that truly independent platforms were finally constructed many miles offshore. buoyancy chamber valve platform loading water depth engineer triton ship wire leg deep water manifold center template fl tension-leg field testing riser port workmen subsea system top...

... of the wellheads flow into a manifold center installed on the sea floor which is also maintained at atmospheric pressure. Here the fluids from each well are controlled) commingled) and then transported by gathering lines to a separation facility. The manifold center also has necessary controls to divert individual...