Less likely still would be the realisation that the development systems employed on the project would be laden with a myriad of unproven, first-of-their-kind technologies, or that the development's semi-submersible host structure would be stationed over an area that was not intended to produce a single drop of hydrocarbons.
Fast-forward to 2003 and the small, uneconomic Kepler find is joined by a quartet of small, similarly challenging fields -- Ariel, Fourier, East Anstey and Hershel -- to make up Shell and partner BP's novel Na Kika development.
While
