Shell Offshore Inc.'s Olympus hull, the 32, 500-metric ton main body of the Olympus TLP, recently left South Korea to begin a two-month journey to the U.S. Gulf Coast. After nearly 4 million man hours and a peak of 1,300 workers on-site, construction of the Olympus hull was completed in November. The hull will be transported from South Korea to Ingleside, TX on Dockwise's world-class Blue Marlin marine vessel, a semi-submersible heavy lift ship specifically designed to transport larger equipment above the ship's deck. The hull is expected to reach Ingleside in early 2013 where installation of the topsides will take place before the TLP departs for its final location on the Mars Field in the Gulf of Mexico. The site for the Olympus TLP, known as the Mars B development, is about 130-miles south of New Orleans in the Mississippi Canyon and lies in 3,000 feet of water.
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