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Facing up to the HTHP challenge

Extreme reservoir pressures and temperatures are straining the limits of current deep-water technology — and putting pressure of a different sort on US regulators charged with approving field development plans

DEEP-WATER FRONTIER: A rendering of Shell's Appomattox development in the Gulf of Mexico’s Norphlet play, which is characterised by high temperatures and pressures. The project is more than 50% complete and on track to achieve first oil by the end of the decade.
DEEP-WATER FRONTIER: A rendering of Shell's Appomattox development in the Gulf of Mexico’s Norphlet play, which is characterised by high temperatures and pressures. The project is more than 50% complete and on track to achieve first oil by the end of the decade.
  • Jennifer Pallanich
technologyBSEEUS Gulf of Mexico
Published 28 August 2017, 07:27Updated 28 August 2017, 07:50