Astronauts just had to get to the moon. They didn’t have to figure out how to extract oil from it. With the new $3 billion Perdido oil and natural gas platform, in a remote deep-water area of the Gulf ...

Shell has produced first oil and natural gas from the Perdido, the world's deepest offshore drilling and production facility. Shell today produced its first oil and natural gas from the Perdido, the ...

Shell Exploration & Production Co. launched the truss spar for the Perdido regional development on Aug. 8, 2008. After a 2½-day sail, it reached location at Alaminos Canyon Block 857, about 200 miles ...

In a statement to Upstream, Shell sought to clarify its position on the installation of the Perdido spar in Alaminos Canyon Block 857. Shell said that some of the spar's anchors and mooring lines will ...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC began production through the Perdido spar facility, which lies in about 8,000 ft of water on Alaminos Canyon Block 857 in the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles south of Freeport, ...

Shell staff have returned to a major oil and gas platform in the US Gulf of Mexico in preparation to restart production one week after its shutdown due to Hurricane Harvey, industry sources said on ...

Shell has awarded TechnipFMC an iEPCI contract for its Perdido Phase 2 development in the US Gulf of Mexico. Shell has awarded TechnipFMC an integrated engineering, procurement, construction and ...

Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS.A) resumed oil production at its Perdido offshore platform in the western Gulf of Mexico after tropical storm Nicholas forced it to temporarily shut down operations. This is ...

Robert Patterson, vice president of offshore projects in the Americas for Shell, has overseen several key developments in his career, including the world's deepest producing deepwater well. The ...

There was a time when 1,500 feet of water was considered deep for a floating oil and gas platform. That’s so last decade. Now Royal Dutch Shell’s Perdido is floating in 8,000 feet of water 200 miles ...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, said production started at its Gulf of Mexico Perdido oil and natural-gas platform, the deepest drilling facility in the world, enabling the ...