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CASE STUDY IRM at Mad Dog

Mad Dog @ a Glance

Water depth: 1,400 meters

Location: Green Canyon blocks 825, 826 and 782

IRM TECH TOOLS

Gross estimated reserves: 200 to 450 million boe

Operator: BP with 60.5%

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Partners: BHP Billiton with 23.9%, Chevron with 15.6%

Discovered: 1998

Onstream: 2005

Production facility type: Spar

Production capacity: 100,000 b/d of oil and 60 mmcf/d of natural gas away from that execution risk, he said.

An inspector carries out automatic ultrasonic

Some facilities use other crawling robots for inspections, testing with a rotoscan unit. While this is from one of and Steel said he is considering some of those options for Mad

BP’s operations in Egypt, it is the same

Dog. Mini-ROVs can do internal hull inspections, he said, method employed at Mad Dog. “which is really good.” And drones conduct