ANADARKO Petroleum’s Independence Hub was one of a kind when it came online in 2007 in the ultra-deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.
The deep-draft semi-submersible platform boasted a production capacity of 1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas, with tentacles stretching across nearly a dozen disparate fields over about 1800 square miles (about 4600 square kilometres) of deep sea.
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