Shell Starts Production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico

Shell Offshore has started at the Shell-operated Vito floating production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico. With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design.The Vito development is owned by Shell Offshore (63.11% operator) and Equinor (36.89%). In 2015, the original host design was rescoped and simplified, resulting in a reduction of approximately 80% in CO2 emissions over the lifetime of the facility as well as a cost reduction of more than 70% from the original host concept.Vito also serves as the design standard for our Whale project that will feature a 99% replication of the Vito hull and 80% of Vito’s topsides.Originally discovered in 2009, the Vito field spans four Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) blocks in the Mississippi Canyon and is located at a depth of more than 4,000 feet (1,220 metres) of water. The host is located approximately 150 miles (241 kilometres) southeast of New Orleans and 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of the Shell-operated Mars TLP.Shell announced a final investment decision on the Vito project in April 2018.Vito is a four-column semi-submersible host facility with eight subsea wells (31,000 feet or 9,400 metres) with deep (18,000 feet or 5,500 metres) in-well, gas lift, and associated subsea flowlines and equipment.

Shell Starts Production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico

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