Bullwinkle (oil platform)
Bullwinkle is a tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The total weight of the platform is 77,000 tons, of which the steel jacket compress 49,375 tones. Of the total height, are below the waterline. It is located in Green Canyon Block 65, approximately southwest of New Orleans. Bullwinkle belongs to Fieldwood Energy LLC. The total field development construction cost was according to some sources.
The jacket, i.e. the mainly submerged part of the platform, was built by Gulf Marine Fabricators in 1985-1988 at the North Yard location at the intersection of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and the Intracoastal Waterway in Port Aransas, TX, east of Corpus Christi. The platform was installed by Heerema Marine Contractors.
The Bullwinkle platform is the third tallest freestanding structure built in water after the Petronius and Baldpate Compliant Towers, but it is the tallest of these that be built on land as is without any modifications.
