Mahogany
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Operator:
W&T Energy
Image Source: https://www.aapg.org/ (All rights belong to the original owner.)
Type:
Oil & Gas
Design:
Fixed steel jacket
Installed:
1987
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
122
meters
Country:
USA - Houma District
Block:
SHIP SHOAL AREA 17. Block 349
Intro
Mahogany is a fixed jacket platform development located in the Ship Shoal area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It primarily produces oil with associated gas and was brought online in the late 1980s. The installation serves as a conventional shallow-water production and processing hub, with direct pipeline export connections to regional shelf infrastructure.
Field
The Mahogany Field lies on the Gulf of Mexico shelf in the Ship Shoal area. It produces from Miocene-age sandstone reservoirs deposited in shallow marine environments. The field is relatively modest in scale compared to deepwater developments and was developed using conventional fixed-platform drilling and completion techniques typical of shelf projects.
Facilities
The Mahogany installation consists of a fixed steel jacket platform supporting multiple production wells drilled from the structure. Wells are completed as dry-tree producers with associated gas handling. The topsides include standard separation facilities for oil, gas, and produced water. Oil is stabilized and exported via subsea pipeline systems connected into regional Ship Shoal crude networks. Associated gas is compressed and exported via gas pipelines into the Gulf Coast transmission grid. Produced water is treated prior to overboard discharge. Utilities include diesel and gas turbine-driven power generation, chemical injection systems, and basic dehydration equipment. The platform also supports well intervention and workover operations using platform rigs. Infrastructure is integrated into legacy Gulf of Mexico shelf pipeline corridors, allowing direct tie-in to onshore processing and refining systems.
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Image Source: US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. (All rights belong to the original owner.)
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