From Apollo to Cognac

About this technology

Overview

Shell Oil Company started oil and gas production from a new offshore platform called Cognac located in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the world's tallest oil platform, slightly taller than the Empire State Building. The highly complex job of installing Cognac's support jacket" under water more than a thousand feet deep was directed from a barge-based control center. To enable crews to practice in advance difficult tasks never before accomplished Honeywell adapting NASA's Apollo technology developed a system for simulating the various underwater operations. In training sessions displays and controls reacted exactly as they would in real operation."