Nuts and bolts: workers carry out maintenance on Transocean’s Deepwater Nautilus, which is drilling a sidetrack of the latest appraisal at Appomattox. The field is set to be developed using a production semisub similar to the Na Kika unit.
ANGLO-Dutch supermajor Shell is moving forward with a development scheme for its 500 million-barrel-plus Appomattox discovery in the deep-water US Gulf that will use a semi-submersible floating production system without drilling.
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