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grated successfully among a number of
other critical project activities. Several vessels were used for various phases of the installation, hookup and commissioning.
At nearly 10,000 tons, the main topsides
module lift was a record for the installation vessel (Figure 6). Subsequent module
lifts were completed by a separate installation vessel for the accommodation module (about 1,000 tons) and the two gas
compression modules (650 tons each).
Installing the export riser after setting
the topsides versus before (as originally
planned) was the most significant impact
to the overall offshore integration schedule. It required designing, procuring and
installing the largest chain jack of its
kind. The export chain jack work and export riser installation was completed successfully by July 2014, and the equipment
was demobilized by August 2014.
Offshore construction on the topsides
was completed in mid-November 2014,
with the rest of November and most of December devoted to commissioning, including leak testing, initial liquid fills, logic
testing, and validating safety devices. Lucius was commissioned and started first because the oil export system was needed for
processing the condensate from Hadrian
South.
Achieving first oil only five years after discovery is commendable for a project of this scale. Effectively managing the
myriad interfaces in such a complex project was critical to overall success. Perhaps
most importantly, the team's safety performance was outstanding. Overall, a total recordable injury rate of less than 0.4
was achieved on a project that amassed
more than 10.5 million man-hours of execution, including 1.5 million man-hours
for offshore integration.
The cooperation among the operators
of Lucius and Hadrian South and all contractors involved was exemplary, resulting
in all operations being safely and successfully executed.
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Editor's Note: The authors acknowledge Anadarko Petroleum's technical
leads and in-house contractors, ExxonMobil Development Company's Hadrian

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South team, Technip Offshore and its affiliates, Heerema Marine Contractors,
Kiewit Offshore Services, Gulf Island
Fabricators/Dolphin Services, W-Indus-

tries, CANUSA, the Edda Accommodation
Company, GATE, Wood Group Kenny, and
Wood Group Mustang for providing support to the project.

FIGURE 6
Lucius Topsides Installation Operations

MATT LAMEY is a deepwater facilities engineering manager at Anadarko
Petroleum Corp., and served as project
manager for Lucius facilities construction from 2010 through production rampup in 2015. He has nearly 35 years of industry experience, 20 of which have been
spent in deepwater offshore production
facilities surveillance, operations support,
and facilities engineering and construction. Lamey has been with Anadarko for
nearly 15 years, primarily managing major Gulf of Mexico and international offshore projects. He holds a bachelor's in
chemical engineering from Montana
State University.

um engineering and an M.B.A. from the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

JOE GAYNEAUX is a staff facilities
engineer at Anadarko Petroleum Corp.,
and served as topsides engineering lead,
and hookup and commissioning manager on the Lucius facility. Before joining
the company's deepwater facilities project management team in 2010, he was a
project engineer at Universal Pegasus International and a production/construction consultant at K&D Production Specialties Inc. He holds a B.S. in petrole-

TIM ARTHUR is the Gulf of Mexico
senior project manager, including Hadrian South, for ExxonMobil Development
Company. He has spent more than 35
years working for ExxonMobil and more
than 30 years working on major Gulf of
Mexico and international offshore projects. Arthur holds a B.S. in ocean engineering from the United States Coast
Guard Academy.

DANNY HART is a general manager at Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and
served as general manager of the Lucius
project starting in 2009. He has 21
years of experience with Anadarko, including eight years in deepwater development. Hart has served at Anadarko in
multiple capacities, including general
manager of the Delaware Basin, South
American development, and investor
relations manager. He holds a bachelor's
in petroleum engineering from Texas Tech
University.

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