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.

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 ...

Shell is considering subsea completions for Cardamom Deep, even though the original Cardamom satellite, which first produced in October 1997, was completed at the Auger TLP. However, the biggest part ...