Shell, the largest acreage holder in the basin, is at the forefront of those advancing some of these new technologies in the US Gulf.
The Anglo-Dutch supermajor has a long history of innovation in the US deep-water province.
It helped pioneer the use of tension-leg platforms with the Mars facility in the late 1990s. In 2008, Shell installed the Perdido truss spar in 8000 feet of water, making it the world’s deepest production platform.
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