Shell brings Vito online in Gulf of Mexico

Feb. 16, 2023
Shell Offshore Inc., a Shell plc subsidiary, started production from the Vito platform, the operator’s 13th deepwater host in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shell Offshore Inc., a Shell plc subsidiary, has started production from the Vito platform, the operator’s 13th deepwater host in the Gulf of Mexico.

Originally discovered in 2009, Vito field spans four Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) blocks in the Mississippi Canyon and lies at a depth of more than 4,000 ft (1,220 m) of water. The platform lies about 150 miles (241 km) southeast of New Orleans.

Vito is a four-column semi-submersible host platform with eight subsea wells (31,000 ft or 9,400 m) with deep (18,000 ft or 5,500 m) in-well, gas lift, and associated subsea flowlines and equipment.

At peak, the field is expected to produce 100,000 boe/d. Estimated recoverable resources are about 290 MMboe.

Vito employs a simplified and cost-efficient host design that was rescoped in 2015, resulting in an 80% reduction in lifetime CO2 emissions and more than 70% reduction in costs versus the original concept.

Vito will produce into Shell Midstream’s Mars Pipeline system.

Shell is operator with 63.11% interest. Equinor holds 36.89%.