Shell PLC has put onstream a second tieback to the Appomattox manufacturing hub within the Gulf of America.
Dover, found 2018 within the deepwater Norphlet play, contributes 20,000 barrels of oil equal a day (boed) at peak, in line with an announcement Tuesday on the British vitality large’s United States web site. Shell owns one hundred pc of Dover by Shell Offshore Inc.
“Shell continues to unlock extra worth from the prolific basins in our portfolio”, stated Colette Hirstius, Shell government vice chairman for the Gulf of America. “Dover is one other instance of the methods during which we maximize the manufacturing of our deep-water hubs as we ship on our technique to create extra worth with much less emissions. The high-margin, lower-carbon barrels from the Gulf of America are important to our vitality system, each now and sooner or later”.
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Dover will include as much as 2 wells produced by a 17.5-mile flowline and riser in line with Shell. It estimates 44.5 million boe of confirmed and possible reserves in Dover. Shell accredited the challenge within the first quarter of 2023.
Dover is within the Mississippi Canyon in round 7,500 toes of water about 170 miles off the southeast coast of New Orleans Metropolis, Louisiana, in line with Shell. It’s Shell’s sixth discovery in Norphlet.
The primary tieback to Appomattox, Rydberg, went on-line within the first quarter of 2024. Rydberg has a peak manufacturing of 16,000 boed. Found 2014, it has confirmed and possible reserves of about 38 million boe.
Rydberg sits throughout the Mississippi Canyon within the Norphlet Hall round 75 miles off the coast of Louisiana in roughly 7,450 toes of water, in line with Shell.
In 2019 Shell declared it’s the first to start manufacturing in a industrial discovery within the Norphlet formation with the startup of the Appomattox subject. The sphere has a manufacturing capability of 175,000 boed, Shell stated in a media launch Might 23, 2019. Appomattox is a three way partnership between Shell, with a 79 p.c operatorship stake, and China Nationwide Offshore Oil Corp., which holds the remaining 21 p.c.
In 2025, Dover is Shell’s second start-up, after the Whale subject. The co-project with Chevron Corp. is anticipated to provide as much as 100,000 boed. Shell Offshore operates Whale with a 60 p.c stake. Chevron owns 40 p.c by Chevron USA Inc.
Positioned in Alaminos Canyon Block 773, Whale incorporates a semi-submersible manufacturing host in over 8,600 toes of water. As much as 15 wells can be tied again to the host through subsea infrastructure, in line with the homeowners.
Found 2017, Whale holds estimated confirmed and possible reserves of 480 million boe. Its manufacturing facility is adjoining to the Silvertip subject, additionally owned by Shell and Chevron, and lies about 10 miles from Shell and Chevron’s Perdido spar platform.
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