WellDynamics and Halliburton have successfully finished the first installation of an intelligent completion in the Mars field for Shell Exploration & Production in the Gulf of Mexico. WellDynamics and ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 6-- The Mars tension-leg platform (TLP), heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, currently is producing 190,000 boe/d (gross), Shell Exploration & Production Co.

As previously announced, Shell plans to shut down its Mars tension leg platform (TLP) late in the first quarter of 2005 to replace the flexjoints on both its oil and natural gas export lines.

With the hull weight projected to come in between 30,000 and 35,000 short tons, Mars B will be about twice as large as the original Mars TLP, even surpassing Shell's giant Ursa TLP. In fact, the ...

The operator is keen to avoid a repeat performance from six weeks ago when it was forced to shut down its $1 billion Mars project in the region following detection of a leak emanating from a damaged ...