What types of damage did hurricane Katrina and Rita do to the offshore energy infrastructure?
Numerous fixed production platforms were totally destroyed while others sustained minimal damage and are now on production. The full extent of the damage to platforms and pipelines is still unknown. Energy firms are working now to conduct surface and underwater inspection of facilities and pipelines to determine what type of work will be required to bring the operations back on production safely and with no environmental impact. What are operators doing to return to pre-hurricane production levels? Operators are still in the process of assessing damage to not only platforms but the pipelines that connect the facilities to onshore energy distribution networks. Minerals Management Service (MMS) has issued a Notice to Lessee that describes the types of inspections that companies should conduct on both platforms and pipelines within the areas of the Gulf of Mexico that were subjected to hurricane force winds. If a production platform can not resume operation after a hurricane due to a dama
