Posts Tagged ‘Second Mars platform’

Shell starts production in deep water Gulf of Mexico

Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Shell starts production from second Mars platform in deep water Gulf of Mexico

Shell today announces it has begun production from the Mars B development through Olympus – the company’s seventh, and largest, floating deep-water platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the first deep-water project in the Gulf to expand an existing oil and gas field with significant new infrastructure, which should extend the life of the greater Mars basin to 2050 or beyond. Combined future production from Olympus and the original Mars platform is expected to deliver an estimated resource base of 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe). Read More…