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T. T. “Tommy” Laurendine, P.E.
AVP Risk Engineering – U.S. E&P
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tommy.laurendine@libertyiu.com
(713) 470 – 5823
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Rigs-to-Reefs
• State Programs
– Florida
– Alabama
– Mississippi
– Louisiana (Nine Planning Areas)
– Texas
• Minerals Management Service (MMS)
• Corps of Engineers (USCOE)
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Rigs to Reef Project
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Rigs to Reef Project
• AKA – Snapper Reef
• 100 feet of water
• 50 feet of clear water over the highest
point of the reef
• 1989 Cost $370,000.00 (including
donation to State of Louisiana; no well or
process equipment cost)
• Now includes platforms destroyed by
Hurricane Andrew (1992) along with a
host of other reef material
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Rigs to Reefs Donation
• State of Louisiana
• 50% of cost savings versus estimated cost of
removal to a scrap yard
• The donation is deposited in an account and
the reef program is run from the interest
earned on the donations
• The donations are not allowed to be spent
per the Louisiana Rigs-to-Reefs charter
• The earnings are spent on buoys, reef
evaluation, etc…
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Rigs-to-Reefs Coordinators
• Texas - Paul Hammerschmidt 512-389-4650
• Louisiana - Doug Peter 225-765-2375
• Mississippi - Kerwin Cuevas 228-374-5022
x5155 228-523-4061
• Alabama - Ralph Haverd 251-861-8882
• Florida - Jon Dadrill
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Rigs-to-Reefs Project
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Number of Active Platforms
140
Active Platforms (3608)
Number of Active Platofrms
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
<=1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
Year of Platform Installation
Updated as of 1/05/2010
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Platforms Destroyed by Hurricanes
10
KATRINA (45)
Number of Platforms Destroyed 9
RITA (72)
8 IKE (60)
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
Year of Platform Installation
I’m not moving my pipe!
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Louisiana Platforms Removed
180
163
160
153
149 149
140
123
120
111
Number of Platforms
106
104 103
99
100
91 93 91
82 81
80 77
60 55
49 50
40 37
33 34 35
26 26 27
24
20 16 15 14
5
0
74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04
Time (Years)
Average Number of Platforms : Removed = 72 per Year
Total removed since 1974 - 2004 = 2228 Data as of 02/03/06
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Louisiana Platforms Removed and RTR
9%
Reefs
180 Platforms Removed
8% 15
7%
5%
12
160 8 11
10%
140
9% 12
17%
120 6% 5% 10
17
Number of Platforms
6 5 4%
9%
1% 4% 4
100 1 4 9% 4% 8
3
7 `
163
0%
153
`
149
149
80
9%
123
111
60 5
106
104
103
99
93
91
91
82
81
77
40
55
7%
20 1
14
0
87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04
Time (Years)
First Platform Reef 10/30/1987 up to 2004 = 129
Total removed 1987 - 2004 = 1844 Data as of 02/03/06
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Louisiana Platforms Removed By Depth
1400
1264
1200
1000
Number of Platforms
800
580
600
400
213
200 132
55
31 18 4 5
0
0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-250 251-300 301-350 351-400 >400
Water Depth (ft)
Total Platforms = 2302
Data as of 02/03/06
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Louisiana Platforms Converted to RTR
40
37
35 33
30
25
Number of Platforms
22
19
20
14
15
10
5
5
2
1 1
0
0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-250 251-300 301-350 351-400 >400
Water Depth (ft)
Total RTR from 10/30/87 to 11/09/05 = 134 Data as of 02/03/06
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Louisiana Platforms Removed by Depth and
Converted to RTR
1400
0% RTR
1 Removal
1200
1000
Number of Platforms
800
1%
1264 5
600
400
17%
580 37
25%
33
200 40%
22 61%
213 78% 40%
19 14 25%
132 1
55 2
31 18 4 5
0
0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-250 251-300 301-350 351-400 >400
Time (Years)
Total removed = 2302
RTR = 134 Data as of 02/03/06
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Can this be left as an artificial reef?
Is it in a planning area?
What is the clearance above the reef material?
Pipelines, Carcinogens, Habitat Value, etc…
Before Hurricane Rita
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Increased Demand on Resources
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Typhoon Rigs-to-Reefs
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Tension-Leg Platform (TLP)
Destroyed by Waves in Hurricane Rita
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Closing Remarks
• Rigs-to-Reefs are state programs.
• The land composing the reef site is donated by the
federal government to the state.
• Operator’s make a donation to the state based on
50% of cost savings versus conventional scrapping.
• Louisiana has nine planning areas and several SARS
sites.
• All others states run there reef program on a case-
by-case basis.
• Operators should not accept blanket statements or
here say in deciding if reefing is an option.
• Operators should develop a reef plan and submit
for approval.
