First ship-shaped FPU for U.S. Gulf nears reality

摘要

Over the years, Houston-based naval architectural firm Alan C. McClure Associates has been involved in more than two dozen floating production projects. The Helix Producer I, the first ship-shaped dynamically positioned Floating Production Unit (FPU) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, posed "one of the most technically challenging offshore oil production projects ACM A has been involved in during our 35-year history," said ACMA president Scott McClure.