founder william t. bennett jr. 1 headquarters houston texas new orleans louisiana u.s. key people marc wong president 1 services naval architecture structural engineering hydrodynamics liftboat design vessel design and design and modification of other offshore mobile drilling and production platforms . 2 website www.bennettoffshore.com bennett offshore l.l.c. 3 is an independent naval architecture design and consulting firm founded in 1997 by william t. bennett jr. to deliver engineering services to the offshore industry . bennett headquarters are located in houston texas and the company has an engineering office in new orleans louisiana . bennett offshore provides traditional naval architecture structural mechanical and electrical engineering as well as hydrodynamics and other marine and offshore related services . in addition the firm is involved in design modification and construction supervision of marine vessels liftboats and other offshore mobile drilling and production units . bennett offshore worked in collaboration with the offshore technology development group of keppel offshore & marine to design the orca series of self propelled self elevating platforms . contents 1 history 1.1 founding 1.2 bennett co designs keppel b class jack up 1.3 bennett designs q 4000 semisubmersible 1.4 publication jack up units a technical primer 1.5 hurricane katrina 1.6 bennett designs mindoc atp titan 1.7 keppel acquires bennett & associates 1.8 bennett & associates becomes bennett offshore 1.9 orca series of self propelled self elevating platforms 2 references 3 external links history edit founding edit in the spring of 1997 william t. bennett jr. retired from his previous position as ceo of friede & goldman and established his own naval architecture and consulting firm bennett & associates l.l.c. he worked at first out of his own home employing a single structural engineer . by the fall of 1997 mr. bennett had acquired a nearly 100 year old building on historic st. charles avenue in new orleans louisiana . over the next few years the company grew while providing engineering services to the offshore industry . 2 bennett co designs keppel b class jack up edit in 1998 mr. bennett and his team were invited by keppel fels 4 in singapore to co design what was to become the popular b class jack up ; a rig ordered in 2014 by umw drilling 5 became the 75th b class jack up ordered from keppel since 2000 . 6 bennett engineers also contributed to the design of keppel s a class and n class jack ups . 7 bennett designs q 4000 semisubmersible edit in 1999 cal dive international approached bennett & associates to complete the basic design and later the detailed design of a semisubmersible . 8 in 2000 richard michel from bennett & associates and william strong of cal dive jointly presented a paper at the offshore technology conference showcasing the capabilities of the quantum 4000 or q4000 . 9 the semisubmersible was delivered in 2002 . 10 in 2010 the q4000 was one of the auxiliary drilling platforms supporting the well containment efforts during the deepwater horizon incident . it retrieved the failed bop from the well for further investigation . 11 publication jack up units a technical primer edit in 2005 bennett & associates and keppel fels co authored a document titled jack up units a technical primer for the offshore industry professional . the intention was to provide industry personnel with an introduction to jack up platforms and their design considerations . this document has since become known in the industry as simply the jack up primer . 12 hurricane katrina edit in august 2005 hurricane katrina made landfall on the louisiana and mississippi coasts . the ensuing levee failures in new orleans left the city without power and other basic services for months . as a result bennett & associates temporarily relocated its employees to houston . when utilities were restored to their new orleans building bennett & associates reopened the original st. charles ave. office and retained the houston office as company headquarters . 2 bennett designs mindoc atp titan edit in 2006 while looking to acquire an offshore drilling platform atp oil and gas approached bennett & associates and expressed interest in mindoc a design for a multi column deepwater spar alternative conceived years earlier by mr. alden doc laborde and mr. bennett . bennett & associates was awarded a contract and designed the atp titan 13 which became the first us built deepwater dry tree drilling and production platform . 14 keppel acquires bennett & associates edit in january 2012 bennett & associates was acquired by keppel offshore & marine to enhance keppel s design and engineering capabilities . bennett & associates continued to provide engineering services to the offshore industry as it traditionally had done while offering additional services made possible by its association with a global organization possessing extensive offshore construction experience . in collaboration with keppel bennett began work on the design of a series of self propelled self elevating platforms . 2 bennett & associates becomes bennett offshore edit following the 2012 acquisition of bennett & associates by keppel offshore & marine bennett & associates changed its name to bennett offshore to reflect its expanded role in the offshore industry brought about by affiliation with keppel . 2 orca series of self propelled self elevating platforms edit working in collaboration with the offshore technology development group of keppel offshore & marine bennett offshore designed a range of self propelled self elevating platforms named the orca series . utilization of orca platforms includes construction support light drilling well intervention well plug and abandonment coiled tubing operations wind farm installation gas compression and accommodation . 15 the first orca 2500 customized for the middle east and north africa was delivered to a qatari rig operator in february 2016 . 16 an orca 3500 is currently under construction by keppel fels for delivery in q4 2017 . 17 references edit a b bennett offshore key personnel a b c d e bennett offshore history bennett offshore l.l.c. website keppel fels website umw drilling website keppel receives order for 75th b class jack up bennett offshore jack ups . bennett offshore semisubmersibles offshore trade conference paper a dynamically positioned semi submersible multi service vessel for working in 10 000 feet of water cal dive takes delivery of q4000 macondo bop raised from seafloor for analysis jack up units a technical primer mindoc titan for atp oil & gas offshore magazine first us built deepwater dry tree drilling and production platform to set sail bennett offshore self elevating platforms . orca 2500 delivered to qatar . orca 3500 ordered from keppel . external links edit bennett offshore website keppel fels website keppel offshore & marine website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 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