Oil & Gas Journal: Shell, JV partners start oil, gas production from Llano field in Gulf of Mexico
By OGJ editors
Posted 23 May 04
HOUSTON, Shell Exploration & Production Co. and its joint venture partners have brought oil and natural gas on production from Llano field on Garden Banks blocks 385 and 386 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Llano field, which lies about 200 miles southwest of New Orleans in about 2,600 ft of water, is producing 10,500 b/d of oil and 26 MMcfd of gas from a single well through a subsea system tied back 11.5 miles to Shell’s Auger tension-leg platform.