[US GOM] Baldpate

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[US GOM] Baldpate

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Baldpate, located in the Gulf of Mexico 110 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Garden Banks area, was discovered in 1991 and achieved first oil through the world's first free-standing compliant tower platform in 1998.

The Baldpate is a Compliant Tower (CT) offshore structure design utilizing axial tubes affixed to its legs approximately 500 ft above the sea floor to achieve stability.

The compliant tower (CT) is said to offer many of the same advantages of any bottom-founded structure producing in shallower water depths
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