Shell shuts in giant Gulf platform for well hookups

Posted on July 17, 2013 at 11:21 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Gulf of Mexico, Politics/Policy

Shell announced Wednesday it had temporarily halted operations at its oldest tension-leg platform in the Gulf of Mexico as it nears the final stage of a $2.5 billion project to drain deep oil and gas reserves at the site.

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