Shell’s offshore drilling business has decided to move forward with its Dover oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, the London petrochemical giant has announced.
Shell expects Dover’s two wells to produce up to 21,000 barrels of oil per day once it begins operation by either late 2024 or early 2025. The crude oil will be sent to Shell’s Appomattox hub in the Gulf, which started production in 2019 and is about 80 miles southeast of Louisiana.
Originally discovered in 2018, the Dover oil field is in the Gulf’s Mississippi Canyon, about 170 miles southeast of New Orleans. Shell said it will have a full ownership stake in the Dover platform.
The price tag for Dover was not disclosed, but Shell confirmed it has made a final investment decision — an industry term for when companies solidify financing for a large project — on the oil platform.
“Shell is a pioneer in the Norphlet reservoir with Appomattox, and we are building on our leading position in the reservoir with Dover,” Paul Goodfellow, Shell’s deepwater executive vice president, said in a statement. “Last year we took FID on Rydberg, another subsea tieback to Appomattox, and Dover gives us an opportunity to add to our base in this prolific basin.”
The Dover announcement comes about a month after Shell confirmed it has begun production at Vito, another Mississippi Canyon field about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans.
Vito, which Shell has touted for its streamlined design, should produce 100,000 barrels per day at its peak
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