Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Offshore Alabama - Oil & Gas Directory Mobile Alabama

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Compiled by the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Industry

With a list of companies like Aker Solutions, ExxonMobil, Shell, Atlantic Marine, Offshore Inland and Technip located in the Mobile area, a knowledgeable workforce is one of many advantages that Mobile offers oil and gas companies. Mobile is located in a right-to-work state with favorable labor/management conditions, competitive wage rates and large regional and highly skilled workforce. This makes the cost of operation very attractive.

Since the early 1980’s when Alabama leased drilling rights in the waters in and around the lower part of Mobile Bay, the natural gas infrastructure has continued to grow. And with the upswing in offshore drilling, the Mobile area shipyards such as Atlantic Marine, Horizon Ship Building, Inc, C & G Boat Works and Signal Ship Repair continue to build offshore oil and gas vessels. In addition, these shipyards as well as others in Bayou La Batre have full service repair yards and large floating drydocks capable of overhauling, repairing and upgrading drilling rigs, drill ships and pipe laying vessels.

ExxonMobil is a major gas producer in Mobile Bay and offshore Alabama. Mobil Oil initially discovered the gas, followed by Exxon and Shell Exploration & Production. These companies, along with Williams Mobile Bay Producer Services, process millions of cubic feet of gas per day. From these gas processing plants, gas is piped by way of major interstate pipelines such as Transco, Gulf South, Gulfstream and Florida Gas Transmission pipelines to markets through the southeast and east coast. Additionally, natural gas storage is available in

underground salt domes in McIntosh (north of Mobile) by Sempra Pipelines & Storage or underground in Coden (south of Mobile) by MoBay Storage Hub Inc. TORP Terminal LP has applied to build a liquefied natural gas terminal 63 miles south of Dauphin Island. Berg Spiral Pipe Corp. has built a new greenfield DSAW Spiral welded Pipe Mill in Mobile with sizes from 24" thru 56" satisfying customer requirements for on shore and off shore gas pipelines.

The Alabama State Port Authority’s Middle Bay Port is located just south of Mobile on the Theodore Industrial Canal. The ship canal is maintained at a 36 foot draft and is 22 miles from the Gulf of Mexico sea buoy. In addition to the Alabama State Port Authority, the ship canal is home to Aker Solutions, Offshore Inland Marine, Technip’s “spool base", homebase for Technip's "Deep Blue" pipe-laying vessel and three shore base service contractors – Midstream Fuel Service,

Construction Solutions and Core Industries. These shore bases can provice products and services to drilling rigs and platforms in shallow water, deepwater and ultradeepwater. Additionally, 24 hour fuel service is available.

A four-lane highway provides easy access from Interstate 10 to Middle Bay Port and the Theodore Industrial Canal. I-10 borders Brookley Airport and Complex and is seven miles from the Theodore Industrial Canal.

As a growing natural gas cluster, the Mobile area is the home to our expanding community of over 150 businesses serving the oil and gas business and continues to attract companies who support the exploration and drilling in state waters and in the adjacent federal government deepwater and, the outer continental shelf. With an excellent location, easy accessibility, low cost of operation, Mobile will play an increasingly important role as far more drilling activity occurs in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and moves further offshore.

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