Chevron’s Big Foot platform finally goes into production

Chevron's Big Foot tension leg platform. Chevron photo.

Chevron’s long-troubled Big Foot tension leg platform got its final pre-production inspection from the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Nov. 15 and saw first oil five days later, the agency said.

Moored in the Gulf of Mexico about 225 miles south of New Orleans, the Big Foot platform was originally scheduled to go into production back in 2014. But strong Gulf loop currents delayed its arrival on site for months, and then a major failure of the mooring system put the project...

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