Mad Dog
The massive Mad Dog platform is BP’s only
floating spar facility in the Gulf; the bulk of its
550 foot-long single column sits under water.
Location: 100 miles south of Grand Isle, LA
Operator: BP (60.5%)
Partners: BHP Billiton (23.9%)
Chevron (15.6%)
Operates at a
water depth of
Can produce up to
4,500
7x
feet.
That’s more than
the height of the
Seattle Space Needle.
80,000
barrels of oil per day,
= 1,000
Total deck area of
96,000
44
sq ft
can fit
average new
U.S. homes.
That’s enough fuel to
drive every mile of the
U.S. Interstate highways
times.
700
It can also produce up to
60 million cubic feet of
natural gas per day.