Full Title: An Integrated Assessment of Oil and Gas Release into the Marine Environment at the Former Taylor Energy MC20 Site
Author(s): Andrew L. Mason, J. Christopher Taylor, Ian R. MacDonald
Publisher(s): NOAA National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Publication Date: June 24, 2019
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Description (excerpt):
In September of 2004 hurricane Ivan, a category 3 storm at the time, passed through the northern Gulf of Mexico. Severe wave action attributed to the storm triggered a subsea mudslide that toppled Taylor Energy Company’s (TEC) oil Saratoga production platform A at Mississippi Canyon block 20 (MC20). The superstructure, also known as the jacket, came to rest on the ocean floor approximately 210 m southeast of the original location. The collector bundle containing the original 28 well pipes was also dragged in the direction of the collapsed jacket, breaking off and being buried by deposited sediment at the northwest corner of the final resting place of the structure.