With the new $3 billion Perdido oil and natural gas platform, in a remote deep-water area of the Gulf of Mexico, Shell and its partners have effectively done both. After more than a decade of work ...

By bne IntelliNews Shell has delayed the start-up of two out of three additional wells designed to boost production from its Perdido development in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, media have reported ...

Shell has brought online the first of three wells planned to expand production at its Perdido host in the US Gulf, the UK operator confirmed to Upstream. The first well began production in March, ...

Perdido is Shell’s first spar host drilling and production platform – a system selected because of the extreme water depths, the nature of the reservoirs and remoteness of the field.

The 160 workers on Shell's Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater. Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well — about $60,000 a ...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, said production started at its Gulf of Mexico Perdido oil and natural-gas platform, the deepest drilling facility in the world, enabling the ...

expanding output from the platform. Perdido, which began production in 2010, has an output capacity of 125,000 boepd at peak rates. Shell is the operator of the field with a 35% working interest ...

HOUSTON, June 29 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has shut in production and evacuated personnel from its Perdido oil and gas platform because of Tropical Storm Alex, a spokesman said on Tuesday.