SHELL STARTS PRODUCTION AT PERDIDO - WORLD'S DEEPEST OFFSHORE DRILLING AND PRODUCTION FACILITY

PR Newswire ^ | 3-31-10 | Press Release

[smokingfrog]

More info at link.

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Perdido fast facts:

* One day’s production from Perdido is equivalent to the energy needed to fuel 500 cars for 15 years

* First commercial production from the Lower Tertiary reservoir in the Gulf of Mexico

* First Gulf of Mexico full host subsea separation and boosting removes about 2,000 psi of backpressure from the wells

* First spar wet tree Direct Vertical Access (DVA) wells

* The project achieved 10-million hours without a Lost Time Injury

* Located 320 kilometers (200 miles) from the Texas coast in Alaminos Canyon Block 857

* The Great White field represents about 80% of Perdido’s total estimated production

* Perdido’s project life is expected to be about 20 years

* Construction of the Perdido host spar began in late 2006

* Topsides were mated with the spar in a single lift in early 2009

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[eyedigress]

The Moonbats go nuts on this information.

[kimmie7]

Have sailed on Perdido...lovely area, absolutely lovely!

[Rembrandt]

Somewhere a Democrat is shedding tears after reading this. Somewhere, a Florida activist is writing a letter to their friendly editor about how this will devastate their beach.

[kimmie7]

Meh, let ‘em...the folks in Gulf Shores’ll straighten them out quickly enough. ;-)

What I wouldn’t give to be down there for a day or two! I love that white sand!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good info and video clip :

Assembling deepest offshore platform

Incredible achievement...

[newfreep]

A bit off topic...

Since we have so many deep water oil wells beneath the ocean floor that provides more "fossil fuel", I assume special dinosaurs roamed under the ocean floor?

Peak oil? I doubt it...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Perdido Fold Belt, Northwestern Deep Gulf of Mexico, Part 1: Structural Geometry, Evolution and...

[ArrogantBustard]

Since we have so many deep water oil wells beneath the ocean floor that provides more "fossil fuel", I assume special dinosaurs roamed under the ocean floor?

Were these areas always under the ocean? Are "dinosaurs" the only possible source of biological material that might be converted to petroleum?

[newfreep]

Well, we’ve always had oceans...and I highly question if “fossils” were the ONLY source of oil. Just doesn’t make any sense....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The earths crust moves around ....this area seems to be an area of ..... This abrupt change from shallow-marine to deep- marine deposits reflects the rapid subsidence of the basin associated with the start of thermal subsidence ....

See link at #10.

[ArrogantBustard]

There are many areas on land (very much on land, like Ohio and Indiana), where the rocks look an awful lot like they were once seabed. They're loaded with things that look awfully like scallop shells, clam shells, brachiopod shells, corals, fish bones, trilobites ...

You specifically said "dinosaurs roamed" ... I merely point out that there's a lot of life other than large land animals, and that some of it lives in the ocean.

[ArrogantBustard]

I just checked. You're flying an Ohio flag.

Are you actually in Ohio? You can do some fossil hunting in your own (figurative) backyard!

[newfreep]

Yep, living la vida loco in SW Ohio - just south of Dayton.

[ArrogantBustard]

Good Golly, you're in the middle of my old stomping grounds.

Do you know where Caesar Creek Lake is? The emergency spillway for the lake is a channel cut about 75' deep through limestone. Clarksville Road (Co Rd 37) crosses the channel. It's a great place for fossil hunting; found my first trilobite there.

39 28 48N 84 03 25W

[onyx]

BTTT.

“Alien Squid link” doesn’t work.

[thackney]

Dinosaurs to oil are the cartoon version.

Algae, plankton and other simple biological matter make up most of the source.

Keep in mind the rock, even at these depths, is still sedimentary rock.

Even when the sediment is only 5 cm per thousand years, multiple by many, many millions of years and you get some significant depth. Then look at the sedimentary outfall from something like the Mississippi River and you get real accumulation.

[ArrogantBustard]

That’s my point.