DInternational, Inc. has supplied a Subsea Isolation Device (SID) equipped with its revolutionary MODSYS Modular Subsea Control System to ATP Oil & Gas Corp. for use with the ATP Titan on Mississippi Canyon Block 941 in the Gulf of Mexico.

The ATP Titan deepwater dry tree platform is a self-contained, floating drilling and production triple-column spar structure. During the drilling operations, using a surface stack, the ATP Titan will incorporate a single-barrier drilling riser backed up by a SID for safety shut-off at the seafloor.

This will be the first time that this approach has been used in the Gulf of Mexico, according to DTC. The SID, which consists of a double ram preventer equipped with two blind-shear rams, a wellhead connector and re-entry hub, will be controlled using DTC’s MODSYS control system.

 

TMarathon Oil Corp.’s Droshky project in deepwater Gulf of Mexico has started producing. The Droshky development, operating at its peak, is estimated to produce about 50,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, consisting of roughly 45,000 barrels per day of liquid hydrocarbons and 30 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.The Houston-based company said the project was developed under budget for less than $900 million.