Shell Oil’s record-setting Perdido project in a remote part of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico’s Alaminos Canyon passed another key milestone mid-March when Heerema’s Thialf crane barge installed the spar platform’s 9500-ton topsides in around 8000ft of water. Hookup and commissioning is now under way (see ‘Deepwater Roundup’ feature, and installation report).
Russ Ford, Shell’s technology vice president for the Americas, said: ‘Perdido is a technological tour de force that is opening up a new frontier for global oil & gas production. Once the global economy recovers, the energy challenge will return with a vengeance, and new sources of energy will be required. Producing oil safely and responsibly this far out and this deep should allay concerns about industry access to the 85% of the US Outer Continental Shelf that remains undeveloped.’
April 2009 OE
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