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recoverable oil and gas reserves at

Tubular Bells estimated at more than 120mmboe.

The geological and geographical setting of the feld is such that infrastructure developed for Tubular

Bells will be used to develop other

Field Development nearby discoveries. Only 17 miles of export pipeline from Tubular Bells are required to tie into William’s

Canyon Chief gas pipeline and the

Mountaineer pipeline.

Putting it all together

First and foremost in the project - is the central processing facility, which will be installed in MC724. courtesycraymedia

Williams Partners will design and Figure 2. Installing Gulfstar FPS triple-deck topsides onto spar. construct the central facility, called

Gulfstar FPS – a classic, three-deck, oil, gas and NGLs. It currently built in the US. Williams expects to wet-tree spar design (Figure 2) – transports about 14% of US natural deliver the facility by mid-2014.

including oil and gas gathering, gas. It will own the topsides/spar Helping to achieve the fast production handling, gas processing facility while Hess will operate it. delivery, Williams will be building services and the export pipelines. Williams’ Stafford Menard, all of Gulfstar’s major components

Williams Partners is a diversifed manager for Gulfstar, says the FPS is on the US Gulf Coast, with more

MLP (master limited partnership) in a ‘frst’ in many respects. Although than 90% of the materials and the business of processing natural there has been a cell spar built, it’s sub-components sourced in the gas and liquids, and transporting the frst spar, classic or truss, to be US, and coming from about 20

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