Largest Persian Gulf Platforms Installed With Custom Care
Designing a custom system to lift and set 2,200-ton and 2,600-ton offshore platforms is notable enough. But Belle Chasse, La.-based Versabar Inc. had to work with three different cultures across nine time zones and sail past real-life pirates to a site 8,500 miles away to make its most recent job successful—all within 10 months.
Versabar was hired by Al Khafji Joint Operations to use its Versatruss system to lift the two largest platforms ever installed in the Persian Gulf for a 600,000-barrel-per-day field jointly operated by Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Gulf Operations and Kuwait Gulf Oil Co. Al Khafji received a $1.2-billion contract to design, build and install six offshore platforms. Versabar began in January and completed the job in November.