Mensa Offshore Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Shell
- Country: USA
- Location: Mississippi Canyon Blocks 686, 687, 730 & 731
- Production start: 1997
- Partners:
- Type: Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field is located in 5,286 feet of water
- Mensa field had three wells initially and now has four that feed into a manifold connected via a 12-inch pipeline to the West Delta 143C platform just over 100 kilometres away
- At the time, Mensa was the deepest offshore development ever
Contractors
- Nexans: E/H Umbilical and Electrical Umbilical
History
- 1986 - Mensa Offshore Gas Field discovered
- 1997 - First gas produced
Geology
Links
- Shell, Deepwater
- Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields
- Nexans Norway Umbilical References
page revision: 3, last edited: 08 Jul 2014 12:49