Posted on 03/31/2010 9:13:32 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Shell today produced its first oil and natural gas from the Perdido Development, the world’s deepest offshore drilling and production facility. Located in an isolated, ultra-deep sector of the Gulf of Mexico, Perdido marks a new era in innovation and safely unlocks domestic sources of energy for US consumers. The facility sits in approximately 2,450 meters (8,000 feet) of water, which is roughly equivalent to six Empire State Buildings stacked one atop the other, and will access reservoirs deep beneath the ocean floor. Perdido smashes the world water depth record for an offshore platform by more than 50%.
“Perdido is an impressive project in a strong Gulf of Mexico portfolio that continues to grow,” said Marvin Odum, Upstream Americas Director, Shell Energy Resources Company. “Perdido presented technical challenges unlike we’ve ever seen in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell’s team used its expertise to open this new frontier and confront complex reservoir characteristics, extreme marine conditions, and record water depth pressures. Perdido demonstrates what companies like Shell can do when US federal lands and waters are opened to responsible energy exploration and production.”
From the first lease purchase to today’s production, the Perdido Development required an industry workforce of approximately 12,000 people, including employees and contractors. Shell designed, and operates, the Perdido host spar, a floating production facility, which is jointly owned by Shell (35%), Chevron (37.5%), and BP (27.5%).
The facility will produce from the Great White, Silvertip, and Tobago offshore fields, requiring perhaps as many as 35 wells over the life of the fields. Tobago sits in more than 2,900 meters (9,600 feet) of water and surpasses the world depth record for a completed subsea well. In addition, all Perdido subsea fields will utilize a unique and innovative subsea separation and boosting system to enable oil and natural gas recovery.
Sorry, I should have posted that to newfreep.
Ahhh, Caesars Creek. Just before it was flooded to become a lake, it was opened to allow tree cutting to get firewood. Free. I cut enough to fill 2 large pick-ups.
That was a few years ago.
....not sure what I did...may have trouble finding that one...but here is another:
LOL. Never mind. That one doesn’t work either.
It’s April Fool’s. Your ‘puter is messin’ with ya.
LOL. Just post the link.
Has a quick veiw of the squid with elbows....and more.
Thanks. Interesting and very strange creatures.
Dinosaurs were not the only living things in the past.
From the wiki entry for petroleum:
More specifically, crude oil and natural gas are products of heating of ancient organic materials (i.e. kerogen) over geological time. Formation of petroleum occurs from hydrocarbon pyrolysis, in a variety of mostly endothermic reactions at high temperature and/or pressure.[15] Today's oil formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae, which had settled to a sea or lake bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions (the remains of prehistoric terrestrial plants, on the other hand, tended to form coal). Over geological time the organic matter mixed with mud, and was buried under heavy layers of sediment resulting in high levels of heat and pressure (diagenesis). This process caused the organic matter to change, first into a waxy material known as kerogen, which is found in various oil shales around the world, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons via a process known as catagenesis.
Shell starts production at Perdido
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And a great Map ....PDF however ....Opens in a new window....:
Buster Stewart & folks like him make me proud to be an American capitalist.
Thanks.
Interesting video. It is one heck of a big platform that is for certain. Hopefully the site will yield the max oil extraction predicted.
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