Thunder Horse & The Limits of Technology

Back in 1999 the Thunder Horse complex in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) was the new kid on the block, and the deepest. There are two fields, Main and North. It posed a lot of technology challenges but BP, the same folks who brought you the Deepwater Horizon fire, had high expectations. The estimate was 1B bbl of oil in the Main Field alone, and an expected production rate of 250K bbl of oil per day