The record for the largest single-piece jacket ever installed rests with the Bullwinkle platform, installed in 1,350 ft of water in 1988. Being the world’s tallest pile supported fixed steel structure, this tower is designed to resist hurricane force winds, 70′ waves, and a lifetime of stress-reversals induced by small waves. Seven tugboats spent three days towing Bullwinkle to its home, 150 miles southwest of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.
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