McDermott: Trends in Offshore Oil & Gas - GineersNow GineersNow Engineering Magazine Issue No. 021, McD | Page 34

An Engineering Pioneer McDermott is one of the pioneers of the energy industry with a rich history of engineering firsts. Among some of the unique achievements have been: • First offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico (1947) • Installed the first large diameter, concrete coated pipeline off shore in the Gulf of Mexico (1951) • Built the world’s tallest single-piece jacket (1981) • Installed the first pipeline using the J-lay method (1994) • Built the world’s first production spar platform (1996) • Built the largest-ever subsea structure as part of the Ichthys LNG Project (2014). The image you see here is the construction of this project in Australia.