Shell is awarding contracts to Texan fabricator Kiewit Offshore Services and Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea to provide a large semi-submersible production platform for the Appomattox field development in the Gulf of Mexico it sanctioned this week.
The Anglo-Dutch supermajor confirmed midweek that it is going ahead with its Appomattox development, launching a welcome new mega-project that will offer work for about 500 different contractors weathering a global oil and gas downturn.
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