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By October 4. 2002, when Total E&P

USA. Inc. returned to the area after the storm had passed, the platform had van- ished. No pollution occurred, thanks to the decommissioning and abandonment already performed. The platform jacket had buckled 125 ft. below sea level and had toppled to the west. The deck had broken free of the jacket and rested upright on bottom. Total E&P USA,

Inc. asked LoneStar Deepwater, Stolt

Offshore, and Noble Denton

Consultants, Inc. to provide a feasibility study.

For environmental as well as safety reasons, Total E&P USA, Inc. requested

Stolt Offshore not to use

Explosives, as many types of marine life, such as sea turtles, and various kinds of fish, populate that area of the

Gulf.

After reviewing the options, TOTAL

E&P USA, INC. elected to apply for a

Special Artificial Reef Site (SARS) to leave part of the platform on location and then follow a multi-staged solution which included removing enough of the jacket structure to ensure a minimum clearance of 85 ft. from the surface of the water for safe navigation purposes; removing equipment still possibly con- taining fuel or other hydrocarbons; flooding the remaining empty vessels on the deck to make them stable and to pre- vent them from making an uncontrolled ascent to the surface; and completing the plugging and abandonment operations of the remaining four wells.

The final step, just completed, was for

Stolt Offshore to conduct a survey to ensure all procedures were correctly implemented and all regulatory require- ments satisfied.

Multraship Completes

Danish Salvage

Multraship Salvage completed another salvage of a vessel grounded in the shal- lows of the Danish Great Belt. The

Bulgarian-flag 38,511 dwt bulker

Petimata OT RMS grounded in Danish waters on July 9, while carrying fertiliz- er from Ventspils to Santos. Multraship has now completed the discharge of enough of the vessel's cargo and bunkers, and after refloating moved the vessel to the Danish port of Kalundborg where it has been inspected and reloaded. The operation follows the recent salvage in the same area of the 38.391 dwt Egyptian-flag Domiat, which grounded near Copenhagen on

June 7. "It seems fertilizer exports from

Baltic ports will keep salvors busy," said

Multraship managing director Leendert

Muller. "These two jobs have justified our decision to expand our salvage oper- ations and to react to incidents right across Europe. We undertook this job on

LOF2000. and were able to use our

Multratug 7 plus two other tugs, a bunker lighter and a chartered Spliethof bulker. the Apollogracht. to clear the ship of bunkers and take off enough cargo to move the ship to safety." (Continued from page 23

Stolt Offshore was managing the com- pany's 210-ft. saturation diving support vessel, American Constitution, at the platform site when Hurricane Lili approached the Gulf packing more than 120 mph winds.

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