Shell’s biggest oil platform heads for deep-water Gulf

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Posted on July 15, 2013 at 1:44 pm by Emily Pickrell in featured, Offshore

Shell’s Olympus platform is finally embarking on its last epic voyage.

The Dutch company’s biggest and recently constructed tension leg platform started its final pre-production journey on Sunday, setting sail from the construction dock in Ingleside, Texas (near Corpus Christi) for a 425-mile voyage to the Mars B Field in the Gulf of Mexico.

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