Eagle Louisiana is a converted Aframax tanker designed to hook up to a subsea capping stack in the event of subsea well blowout
Eagle Louisiana is a converted Aframax tanker designed to hook up to a subsea capping stack in the event of a subsea well blowout and direct the diverted hydrocarbons to her onboard tanks. She is assigned via a 20-year agreement to the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC), a consortium of 10 major energy fims – Anadarko, Apache, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Hess, Shell and Statoil – which came together post-Macondo to develop a solution to preventing major oil spills as a result of deepwater drilling. The vessel has 700,000 barrels of liquid storage capacity, and can process, store and offload the liquids to shuttle tankers. The process equipment will separate the liquids from gas, safely store the liquids and flare the gas. The conversion will allow the tankers to continue to operate normally as tankers in the US Gulf of Mexico, with the capability to be deployed as MCVs. According to reports, each vessel will be equipped to handle about 100,000 barrels of liquid and about 200 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, and will be capable of operating at depths of 10,000ft. Earlier this year, AET received a 20-year contract from MWCC to supply two MCVs to provide hydrocarbon capture and containment services to tackle an underwater well control incident in the US Gulf of Mexico.
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