Furie Operating Alaska’s fully automated “mini” monopod has arrived in Alaska from Corpus Christi, Texas, however will now be installed in spring of 2015.
The company had originally hoped the platform could be producing natural gas around October or November but it arrived in Kachemak Bay on the east side of the Cook Inlet too late in the season.
Furie must now work to offload the massive platform structures in Anchorage so that they can be stored for winter. One of those structures weighs more than two million tons.
If the structures cannot be offloaded Furie will have to transport them back to Seattle.
The new platform will be fully automated and is designed to be unmanned although the company states that there will be periodic inspections three to four times a week to check on operations. Despite being monitored from the on shore facility, the platform will be equipped with living quarters for around 24 workers.
This mini-monopod will be a natural gas production only platform, having no drilling rig of its own. Drilling rigs will be able to cantilever over the platform in order to drill the production wells.
The new platform will be about 6 miles from shore, situated on a support 18 ft in diameter.
