Posted on 05/29/2010 10:53:34 PM PDT by thecodont
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 metres (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 metres (9,600 feet) of water and surpasses the world depth record for a completed subsea well.
(Excerpt) Read more at shell.com ...
This press release is almost two months old.
On other oil production and exploration Web sites, are there any stories comparable to those of British Petroleum's deep water production efforts?
Does 0bama know about this? I hope not.
How it going?
Houston Business Journal (regurgitating the Shell press release)
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/03/29/daily35.html
Houston Chronicle (May 2009)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6404208.html
I have no information beyond that.
My son works on this platform. I hope and pray all goes well.
Prayers for God's protection of your son.
LOL! 8,000 feet of water. Amazing.
Perdido is Spanish for Lost. Hope this one isn’t (lost, that is).
I sincerely hope they bought their blowout preventers for someone other than China.
from, not for
California don’t need no stenkin oil, California don’t need no stenkin revenue, California don’t need no stenkin tourists,,,,,got that Gomer.
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