The company said this week that partial production had been restored and that the facility would continue to ramp up towards pre-Katrina levels of 147,000 barrels of oil and 157 million cubic feet of natural gas per day by 1 July.
"The Mars platform recovery and deep-water pipeline repairs were among the most technologically complex operations in the world, and our people were up to the task, completing the work safely and ahead of schedule," said Marvin Odum, executive vice president and head of Shell Exploration&Production in North and South America.
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