April 2014, Vol. 241 No. 4
Projects
Shell Starts Production From Mars B Development In Gulf
Shell started production from the Mars B development through Olympus – the company’s seventh, and largest, floating deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 4. It is the first deepwater 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). “With two large platforms now producing from the deepwater Mars field, this project demonstrates our deepwater project delivery and lea

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