Shell Starts Production at Perdido - World's Deepest Offshore Drilling and Production Facility

ENPNewswire-1 April 2010-Shell starts production at Perdido - world's deepest offshore drilling and production facility(C)2010 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk Release date- 31032010 - Shell today produced its first oil and natural gas from the Perdido Development, the world's deepest offshore drilling and production facility. Located in an isolated, ultra-deep sector of the Gulf of Mexico, Perdido marks a new era in innovation and safely unlocks domestic sources of energy for US consumers. The facility sits in approximately 2,450 metres (8,000 feet) of water, which is roughly equivalent to six Empire State Buildings stacked one atop the other, and will access reservoirs deep beneath the ocean floor. Perdido smashes the world water depth record for an offshore platform by more than 50%.