Bullwinkle
is a 1,736-foot tall, pile supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of
Mexico. Of the total height, 1,352 feet are below the waterline. It is
located in Green Canyon Block 65, approximately 160 miles southwest of New
Orleans.
Bullwinkle
is the world’s tallest supported fixed steel structure. The tower is designed to resist
hurricane force winds, 70’ waves, and a lifetime of stress-reversals induced
by small waves.
Bullwinkle used 10 times the amount of
steel as the Eiffel Tower and weighed over 50,000 tons. In order to tow it
out to sea, an 853-foot long barge, the world’s largest at the time, had to be
constructed.
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| Bullwinkle Oil Platform being towed out to sea By Jay Phagan - Bullwinkle Oil Platform, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102530784 |
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