In Shell’s latest video, the supermajor shows how Cardamom is extending the life of Auger to provide as many as 50,000 more boe/d, increasing Auger’s production capacity to 130,000boe/d.
OE reported earlier this week of Shell beginning production from the Cardamom subsea oil and gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Cardamom system is tied back to Shell's Auger tension leg platform (TLP), marking the seventh subsea development to come onstream through the platform since first oil was achieved in 1994.
Cardamom is located in Garden Banks Block 427 about 362km southwest of off New Orleans in water more than 820m deep.
Shell is using the latest seismic techniques as Shell’s engineers peer through huge salt domes under the GoM’s sea floor for the first time. This is where they discovered the Cardamom field 6.4km below.
Auger was the world’s first TLP floating in water and moored to the sea floor thousand of feet below.
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