Toehold in Big Foot field

FloaTEC, LLC awarded FEED contract for Big Foot field in the Gulf of Mexico.

FloaTEC, LLC, the joint venture of Keppel FELS and J. Ray McDermott has been awarded a contract by Chevron USA Inc. for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the hull, mooring and risers for the proposed Big Foot development facility.

The proposed facility will be installed in 5,187 feet of water approximately 200 miles from New Orleans and 35 miles south of Chevron’s producing Tahiti field.

The goal is to develop Big Foot with a dry-tree floating drilling and production facility. The hull would be FloaTEC, LLC’s proprietary extended tension leg platform (ETLP), with associated foundation piles, tendon mooring systems and top tensioned risers.

Mr Eric H. Namtvedt, President, FloaTEC, LLC, said, “We are very pleased to see our ETLP designs continue to offer superior value to Gulf of Mexico operators and to be given the opportunity to work alongside an industry leader such as Chevron. I am confident that FloaTEC, LLC, with the support from our JV parents Keppel and McDermott, will provide access to unique and large resources and capabilities and execute a quality FEED for our client.”