Bennett & Associates
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| Limited liability company | |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | William T. Bennett, Jr. |
| Headquarters |
Houston, Texas New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Key people
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Marc Wong, President |
| Services | Naval architecture, structural engineering, hydrodynamics, liftboat design, vessel design, and design and modification of other offshore mobile drilling and production platforms. |
| Website | www.bennettoffshore.com |
Bennett Offshore, L.L.C., is an independent naval architecture, design and consulting firm founded in 1997 by William T. Bennett, Jr., to deliver engineering services to the offshore industry. Bennett headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, and the company has an engineering office in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bennett Offshore provides traditional naval architecture, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering as well as hydrodynamics and other marine- and offshore-related services. In addition, the firm is involved in design, modification, and construction supervision of marine vessels, liftboats and other offshore mobile drilling and production units. Bennett Offshore worked in collaboration with the Offshore Technology Development group of Keppel Offshore & Marine to design the ORCA series of self-propelled, self-elevating platforms.
In the spring of 1997, William T. Bennett, Jr., retired from his previous position as CEO of Friede & Goldman and established his own naval architecture and consulting firm, Bennett & Associates, L.L.C. He worked at first out of his own home, employing a single structural engineer. By the fall of 1997, Mr. Bennett had acquired a nearly 100-year-old building on historic St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over the next few years, the company grew while providing engineering services to the offshore industry.
In 1998, Mr. Bennett and his team were invited by Keppel FELS in Singapore to co-design what was to become the popular "B-Class" jack-up; a rig ordered in 2014 by UMW Drilling became the 75th B-Class jack-up ordered from Keppel since 2000. Bennett engineers also contributed to the design of Keppel's A-Class and N-Class jack-ups.
In 1999, Cal Dive International approached Bennett & Associates to complete the basic design (and later the detailed design) of a semisubmersible. In 2000, Richard Michel from Bennett & Associates and William Strong of Cal Dive jointly presented a paper at the Offshore Technology Conference showcasing the capabilities of the "Quantum 4000" (or Q4000). The semisubmersible was delivered in 2002. In 2010, the Q4000 was one of the auxiliary drilling platforms supporting the well containment efforts during the Deepwater Horizon incident. It retrieved the failed BOP from the well for further investigation.
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