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 ... oil to the top of low-pressure reservoirs, improving ...

There was a time when 1,500 feet of water was considered deep for a floating oil and gas platform. That’s so last decade. Now Royal Dutch Shell’s Perdido is floating in 8,000 feet of water 200 ...

Shell Oil Co. has completed installation of the D&P platform atop a 555-ft cylindrical spar at its Perdido development in 8,000 ft of water 200 miles from Houston in an isolated section of the ...

Royal Dutch Shell has temporarily halted production from its 100,000-b/d Perdido platform in the Gulf of ... in 2,450 m of water and produces from Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip fields.

World records don’t stand for long in the frontier-busting business of deep-sea oil and gas, but when Shell’s Perdido platform goes online early next ... 200,000ft 3 of gas per day. Operating in water ...

Besides the water's depth, the project posed a challenge because of the reservoir's low pressure ... based company said. Shell is majority owner of the Perdido platform. BP and Chevron also ...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) said Wednesday that the Whale deep-water well has made one of ... approximately 10-miles from the Shell-operated Perdido platform, the company said.

London - Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday it will ... The Anglo-Dutch company's Perdido platform was the first to start up in the Lower Tertiary in 2010. Perdido, in 2 438m of water, is at present ...

HOUSTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell ... the Perdido production platform in the Gulf of Mexico by a U.S. Coast Guard overflight. Perdido's peak production was 100,000 barrels of oil ...