Touring ATLANTIS, using QuicktimeVR
(You will need to install Apple's Quicktime to view the QTVR panoramas.)

Morgan City Yard
In this 360 degree panorama of the Morgan City Yard, all three ATLANTIS modules can be seen.

ATLANTIS Production Module (v1)
This 360 degree panorama captures a mid-level floor on the Production Module giving viewers the illusion they are standing in the center of the module.

ATLANTIS Compression Module
In this 180 degree panorama, workers are seen on an upper level of the Compression Module.

ATLANTIS Production Module (v2)
This 345 degree panorama of the Production Module shows testing and commissioning activities nearing completion.

ATLANTIS Production Module (v3)
In this 360 degree panorama of the upper level of the Production Module, interconnect piping and E/I installations are nearing completion.

ATLANTIS project background information
Discovered in May 1998, ATLANTIS is located in 4,500 to 6,800 feet of water in Southern Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum and BHP-Billiton jointly own the project. Sanctioned in late 2002, the project is anticipated to cost approximately $2 billion and is scheduled for first oil production in the third quarter of 2006. ATLANTIS employs the concept of a Production Quarters (PQ) platform supported by a separate, dedicated Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU). Nameplate facility throughput is 150 mboed, and up to 180 mmscfd of natural gas. Twenty wells are planned, which include sixteen producers and four water injection wells. The Morgan City, Louisiana J. Ray McDermott fabrication site constructed the three topsides production modules. Daewoo in Okpo, Korea, performed Hull fabrication for the PQ platform with integration of the facilities occurring in Corpus Christi, Texas.

J. Ray McDermott's scope was to procure bulk steel and interconnect piping materials and to assemble the three modules totaling 13,600 tons (6,700 tons of structural steel, 1,775 tons of interconnect piping, 5,125 tons of engineered equipment). Nearly 2.35 million man-hours were expended in our facility from June 2003 through May 2005. J. Ray McDermott was responsible for getting the facilities to mechanical completion and ready for Client commissioning.

Morgan City Yard - 3 ATLANTIS Modules

ATLANTIS project background information
The Owners lead site representative summed up the ATLANTIS accomplishment by describing the ATLANTIS topsides fabrication as a success in every way that projects are measured:

• Schedule - we're hitting the completion dates that were set over two years ago.
• Cost - we're going to end up within one percent of the budget established in late 2003.
• HSE - Atlantis' construction safety performance is the safest of all of BP's recent projects.

JRM believes that the keys to successful construction of the ATLANTIS modules were:

• Excellent JRM constructability comments, acted on by the owner and topsides designer.
• A comprehensive, required on site date, matrix of all deliverables (drawings and owner furnished equipment) was mutually agreed upon between JRM, the owner and the topsides designer.
• Strong Project Controls; Planning & Scheduling, ConstructSim, PIMS, and DTCMS

ATLANTIS Generation Module

Touring ATLANTIS: Panorama background information
These Morgan City, LA construction yard panorama media tours were assembled from digital still images shot in overlapping sequence while panning across the modules' environments. Downloaded and imaged-processed in Adobe PhotoShop, the 10, 12 or 15 shots (depending on the pan range of the tour) were then stitched into QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality) panoramas using Apple VR authoring software.

Truly user-controlled, interactive experiences, QTVR panoramas not only enable viewers to see an environment but to actively explore it by scrolling and zooming around in it in real time with the mouse button and or keyboard.

Photographed in April 2005, by San Francisco environmental photographer, Bram Druckman, the three ATLANTIS topsides modules were only weeks away from being completed and turned over to BP for their use offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Of his experience photographing atop the modules, Bram was not only impressed by their massive size but was doubly impressed by the attention played to safety by everyone on the construction site.

Morgan City Yard - 3 ATLANTIS Modules