Reducing Transportation Costs and Providing Storage Solutions on Offshore Platforms

The high cost of transporting tools, replacement valves, gauges and other spare parts from onshore locations to offshore platforms has been a significant line item in the budgets of producers and production companies worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent flying or shipping these items to platforms at premium rates. Once arrived, storage has been relegated to used metal shipping containers.

The lack of and need for a secure, sealed and ventilated, affordable facility in which replacement parts and tools may be stored for future use, along with lighting and a workbench on which production personnel may work, has been unavailable.

Edwards Fabrication, LLC, one of the Gulf of Mexico's leading on and offshore metal fabrication providers for over thirty years, has designed several standard offshore metal buildings to withstand the harsh climatic conditions at sea.

• Seal welded construction

• Cross ventilated
  
• Employing ¼” and 3/16” steel plate
  
• Painted and protected with a 3 part paint system that when finished is 8.5
  to 11.5 mils thick
  
• Fitted with stainless steel hinges and door latch
  
• Nearly maintenance-free
  
• Three wrap-a-round shelves
  
• May be lighted to the client’s specifications
  
• Optional workbench
  
• Solar Panel systems for offshore and remote onshore applications to power lighting and battery box
  
• Battery box has 6 hours run time per day with 15 hours standby time
  
• Optional, mounted work vise for bench
  
• Optional USH, ASH, YSH (fire, gas & smoke) detection systems