Project Profile
Value: US$1,000 million
Start-up Year: 2015
Water Depth: 914m
Location: Mississippi Canyon
The project will see a third stand-alone facility at the Mars mini-basin region, in the deep-water Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Shell will put in a Tension Leg Platform (TLP), named Olympus, which will have a production capacity of 100,000 bbl of oil per day. The Olympus TLP will be the second such facility installed on Mars, where a similar platform was installed and has been producing successfully since 1996. The Mars basin contains around 2 billion barrels of recoverable oil, including fields such as Deimos, Ursa, King, Crosby, Europa, and Princess. (Mars-B was formerly called Mars South).
Mars B will draw production from 8 Mississippi Canyon blocks – 762, 763, 764, 805, 806, 807, 850 and 851.
The South Deimos and West Boreas fields are estimated to hold some 150m boe of reserves, and will be tied back to the Olympus TLP using a subsea production system and 6 wells with 15kpsi christmas trees (xmas trees) (4 on West Borealis, 2 on South Deimos). There is also flexibility to connect other subsea tiebacks in the future.
The West Delta 143 \"C\" Jacket and Deck fabrication is part of the Mars B development. The Olympus host and its export pipelines will be tied back to the new WD 143 \"C\" platform.
Operator:
Shell: Operator with 71.5% interest
BP: 28.5% interest
Contractors:
Belleli Energy S.r.l.: Hull
BMT Scientific Marine Services: Supply a Marine Instrumentation System
Dril-Quip: Supply Equipment for Olympus TLP
The Bayou Companies, LLC: Coat approximately 80 miles of 16-inch and 18-inch diameter oil and gas pipelines
McDermott : Jacket fabrication
Noble Drilling: Drilling contractor
ODL: Customised eLearning and competence solutions
Scana Industrier ASA: Semi-finish machined riser forgings
Transocean: Drilling contractor