( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), Todd Coulon of Shell gives a tour on the Appomattox, in the monitor room on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside, Texas. Shell's Appomattox platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is is a four-column semi-submersible production platform, moored using 16 mooring lines arranged in 4×4 clusters, in 2,255m (7,400ft) of water approximately 130 kilometers offshore Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. The Appomattox platform and the associated pipeline, the Mattox, are joint ventures between Shell and CNOOC, China's state-owned offshore oil company. The platform and Appomattox and Vicksburg fields will be owned by Shell with 79% interest; wholly owned CNOOC Ltd. subsidiary Nexen Petroleum Offshore USA Inc. holds the remaining interest. A-Appomattox (2623) is a gas/oil platform built by Shell Offshore Inc. and installed on 06/07/2018. The Appomattox development host will consist of a semi-submersible, four-column production host platform, a subsea system featuring six drill … The platform and Appomattox and Vicksburg fields will be owned by Shell (79%) and Nexen Petroleum Offshore U.S.A. Inc. (21%), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited. That’s much cheaper, but it also means less oil and gas volumes. An additional 30 percent was cut afterwards. The platform can hold 180 people, some rooms have two beds, others have four beds. But the most important number for Shell is this one: The Appomattox has the potential to produce 175,000 barrels of oil a day. They’re what we call resilient projects,” Sawan said. Willing to benefit from the successful experience in Olympus, Shell and Nexen, develop Appomattox with similar process and selected Houston Offshore Engineering to design the topsides.. The platform will be based in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vito decision is considered a sign that the long-languishing offshore sector is showing signs of life as oil prices close in on $70 a barrel. “And it comes at a time when the (global) market needs more oil.”. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), Todd Coulon of Shell gives a tour of the monitoring room on Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, before it's set out to sea on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside. “It started here and it continues to evolve here.”. The Appomattox hull has arrived at Ingleside, Texas, where host construction is underway with topsides integration with the hull. 3 0 obj BSEE inspects Shell's new Appomattox platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Jordan is a New Orleans native who graduated from Texas Christian University with a journalism degree before going back to work at daily newspapers in Louisiana. Meals are served on the platform every six hours. The Appomattox platform, which currently has an expected production of 175,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), is the first commercial discovery now brought into production in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico Norphlet formation. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), A Kiewit employee checks out the corner of the helipad on Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, before it's set out to sea on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside, Texas. Sep 2, 2019 - Explore Craig Lang's board "Shell Appomattox" on Pinterest. In 1979, Shell began producing from the first deep-water field at depths of more than 1,000 feet. 1 0 obj ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), The links connected to Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, weigh about 850 pounds each, photographe don on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside. The platform will house a crew of 180 workers at a time. The Appomattox field is expected to have an average peak annual production of 175,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. A-Appomattox is considered a minor platform that stands in 7400 feet of water and may provide habitat for many different offshore species of fish. Previously, Jordan was an award-winning reporter at The Advocate in Baton Rouge and New Orleans as a statehouse reporter and education writer, and then as the newspaper’s Washington Bureau chief. It was followed by drilling an appraisal sidetrack well that same year to a depth of 7,910m (25,950ft), which encountered approximately 116m (380ft) of oil pay. See more ideas about appomattox, floating platform, oil and gas. Shell said it cut 20 percent off the price tag before approving the Appomattox in 2015. Seven years and millions of man-hours later, this amazing oil platform is started up for the first time. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), Kelly Bowen, senior staff civil engineer for Shell, points to the water below the platform during a tour of Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, before it's set out to sea on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside. 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Many oil platforms will also contain facilities to accommodate their workforce. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), A welder work on part of Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, before it's set out to sea on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside, Texas. He has written about everything from Texas’ national lead in renewable wind power to the Houston area’s growing dominance in petrochemical and plastics manufacturing. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), A series of switches and controls on Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside, Texas. With the arrival of the hull in Texas, the project is more than 65% complete, and Appomattox is on track to achieve first oil by the end of the decade. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), Workers Preview Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, before it's set out to sea on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside. The massive Appomattox oil platform will set sail in May from a dock in Ingleside en route to the eastern Gulf of Mexico as Royal Dutch Shell aims to trigger a new beginning for the deep-water Gulf of Mexico following the recent oil bust. 2 0 obj “We call it the jewel and the crown of the deepwater business,” said Wael Sawan, Shell’s executive vice president of deepwater. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ), Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Chronicle / Houston Chronicle, An American flag on top of a small vehicle flies in front of Shell's new Gulf deepwater platform, Appomattox, before it's set out to sea on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Ingleside. Umar Ali 24 May 2019 (Last Updated May 24th, 2019 11:47) Royal Dutch Shell has, through its subsidiary Shell Offshore, started production at the Appomattox floating production system in the Gulf of Mexico. Liquefied natural gas platform as well as the international benchmark for oil prices to the Gulf of Mexico the project. 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