The team at OceanSpring has substantial expertise in re-purposing California offshore energy and outfall facilities, and we have an unrivaled track record in permitting California coastal energy facility projects, including pioneering the very first CEQA project in 1992 involving an offshore tanker berth decommissioning.

There are currently twenty-seven offshore oil and gas platforms located off the coast of California in water depths ranging from 22 feet to 1,198 feet.   Of these twenty-seven platforms, approximately nine of them may be suitable for re-purposing and conversion to offshore desal plants.

Prime considerations for re-purposing a platform include the platform’s structural condition; availability of existing shore power or feasibility of installing shore power; feasibility of re-using existing pipelines or the installation of new pipelines; and successfully formulating a final decommissioning plan for the platform and its supporting facilities that is acceptable to all stakeholders.

OceanSpring’s parent company, Longitude 123, Inc., and sister company, Thomas & Beers, LLC, have been involved in the installation, maintenance, and operation of the vast majority of these platforms and the operation and maintenance of all these platforms.  Further, we have planned and permitted the decommissioning of four platforms, provided technical support for the conversion of one of the platforms to an LNG tanker berth, and are currently leading the planning of the decommissioning of a fifth platform.  Longitude 123, Inc. also planned and executed, under CEQA, the only reuse to date of a California submarine coastal pipeline from oil to wastewater.