Fairwinds International, Inc. was requested to assist Century Exploration of New Orleans with fast-track management of a new-build concrete production barge facility off the environmentally sensitive wetlands of the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana, USA.

From scheduling through permitting, commissioning and start-up assistance, Fairwinds was charged with the conceptual and detailed design of the barge, equipment and pipeline. This included procurement, construction management, AFE cost controls, vendor surveillance, tow and route delivery analysis, and site installation.

Due to environmental concerns, studies were conducted for Air Emission Analysis and Mitigation, Owner's Risk Analysis, Hurricane Storm and Flood Planning, HAZOP review, Risk Register Maintenance, and Unmanned Reliability and Maintainability Studies. These studies were used as part of the permitting process with local, state and federal government agencies to meet regulatory statutes.

In addition, studies were conducted for Operability and SCADA monitoring, human factor interfaces and safety-in-design.

This project was delivered on-time and well within budget constraints and is currently producing at owner's expectations. A new offset well is planned to tie-back to the barge production facility which was designed with sufficient spare capacities.

Only four months elapsed between logging the discovery well until production commenced through the new barge facility and lateral pipeline.