Industry Firsts

More than 50 years ago, SBM’s first CALM Buoy marked the beginning of a technological revolution in the offshore oil and gas industry. The CALM Buoy was an industry first as well as a first for SBM Group Companies, but certainly not the last of many technology “firsts”. The following is a partial list of our many innovations and noteworthy achievements over the years.  Those specifically performed by SBM Atlantia are indicated with *.

A Track Record of Innovation

• First CALM Buoy
• First deepwater CALM Buoy
• First turnkey FPSO (Castellon)
• First leased FPSO (Cadlao)
• First FPSO installed in the United States (Hondo)
• First disconnectable FPSO (Jabiru)
• First bottom turret mooring (China)
• First turret moored FPSO using SCRs for fluid transfer (Espirito Santos)
• Deepest gas production platform (Independence HUB)*
• First semisubmersible PHA (Thunder Hawk)*
• First mono-column TLP (Morpeth)*
• First EPCi TLP (Morpeth)*
• First classed TLP (Morpeth)*
• First TLP fabricated in the United States (Morpeth)*
• First TLP with wet trees (Morpeth)*
• First floating pipeline (GAP/Trelline)
• First DP drillship (Pelican)
• First jackup drilling rig (Seashell)