I thought Stampede was sanctioned awhile ago and MD2 was sanctioned in the last month or two?
LostInLA07 said:
I thought Stampede was sanctioned awhile ago and MD2 was sanctioned in the last month or two?
Yeah, I'm struggling to come up with a single floater hull that was built in the US. Maybe an elderly tanker repurposed as an FPSO?tommyjohn said:
The only surprise on MD2 is the top sides also being done in Korea. Normally for GOM projects those are done here and integrated at the Kiewitt yard outside Corpus. All the hulls are built overseas.
As bad as the market is I am almost positive BP could name their price and the Korean yard gladly accepted.
OCEN99 said:Yeah, I'm struggling to come up with a single floater hull that was built in the US. Maybe an elderly tanker repurposed as an FPSO?tommyjohn said:
The only surprise on MD2 is the top sides also being done in Korea. Normally for GOM projects those are done here and integrated at the Kiewitt yard outside Corpus. All the hulls are built overseas.
As bad as the market is I am almost positive BP could name their price and the Korean yard gladly accepted.
Yeah, the Finns have a lot of experience with spar hulls in particular. I know McDermott built a couple in Dubai and Batam but didn't get much momentum going on that front.Entourageag07 said:OCEN99 said:Yeah, I'm struggling to come up with a single floater hull that was built in the US. Maybe an elderly tanker repurposed as an FPSO?tommyjohn said:
The only surprise on MD2 is the top sides also being done in Korea. Normally for GOM projects those are done here and integrated at the Kiewitt yard outside Corpus. All the hulls are built overseas.
As bad as the market is I am almost positive BP could name their price and the Korean yard gladly accepted.
The recent Tubular Bells Spar hull was built at Gulf Marine Fabricators in Aransas Pass. Not a screaming success I might add.
The Koreans and Fins are truly the best at building hull structures. Topsides, not so much.
CONGRATS to SC-AG. Looks like he is the winner of the contest. Stay tuned for your giganticgoid wondermous prize package....AgLA06 said:Buck Compton said:Here's how everyone on TexAgs guessed.GarlandAg2012 said:
I'm the one who is in a group with a bet. Unfortunately this quarter I have someone $.01 below me and $.13 above me so I have to be spot on to win.
Update.
94chem said:
Reminds me of a project I worked on years ago. Had a ton of data points, but the r^2 value was atrocious. The engineer wanted to throw out the data and start over because it was ugly. But if you just held the plot in front of you, your eyeballs could clearly see a directional trend. Sure, the slope was anybody's guess, but the trend was unmistakable.
What's funny here is that some high-paid planners went up to Mt Sinai, and delivered the oil prices for their 2017 budget numbers. I bet you the average guess of their employees would give a better number.