SHELL BRINGS MOBILE BAY AREA GAS FIELD ON LINE

Shell Offshore Inc. has started production of Jurassic Norphlet gas from Fairway field in Alabama state waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Shell is producing from two of five wells drilled to depths of about 22,000 ft on Alabama state Blocks 113 and 132 about 3 miles south of Dauphin Island near the mouth of Mobile Bay. Four of the wells are on Block 113. When all five wells are on line in first quarter 1992, Fairway gas output will climb to 200 MMcfd, making it Shell's largest gas producing