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NEXT MEETING - FEBRUARY 25, 2010 Perdido Project - the World's deepest drilling and production facility
At our next luncheon, G.T. Ju, Engineering Manager with Shell, will discuss one of the most exciting and innovative projects ever undertaken in the Gulf of Mexico, - Perdido. As to the technical and cost challenges, Perdido’s difficult reservoirs, high well count and ultra-deep water location made the development uneconomic with conventional deepwater technologies. To produce the wells, reduce the size of the host, and reduce the cost of development, an innovative system of new technologies was required, consisting primarily of wet-tree, direct vertical access (DVA) wells with a Subsea Boosting System. Sanctioning and executing the project during one of the industry's most overheated markets created numerous cost, quality, resourcing and delivery problems, requiring extraordinary effort from the project team and contractors to keep the project on track. This presentation will provide an overview of the Perdido project, discussing the challenges that had to be surmounted and the innovations that had to be developed for successfully project delivery. The presentation will also discuss the offshore construction and commissioning activities that spanned across three calendar years, from 2008 to 2010. About the Speaker G. T. Ju received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. Since then, he has been with Shell's deepwater project execution and technology development organization. He was directly involved with technology development for deepwater applications and participated in several deepwater GOM projects, including the Auger, Mars, Ursa, and Brutus TLPs, and various subsea developments. From 2003 through early 2010, G.T. Ju led the Perdido Development Subsea Team, responsible for concept selection, technology maturation, and fabrication, installation, and commissioning of subsea and flowline systems.
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