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Shell starts production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico; new, simplified design

Green Car Congress

With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design. Vito also serves as the design standard for the Whale project that will feature a 99% replication of the Vito hull and 80% of Vito’s topsides.

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Maersk Drilling awarded contract extension to drill world record well in Angola; 2.25-mile water depth

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Maersk Voyager is a high-spec ultra-deepwater drillship which was delivered in 2014; the ship is a Samsung 96K designed drillship with several Maersk Drilling upgrades. The work on Ondjaba-1 commenced in October 2021, after which the rig is scheduled to move to Namibia to drill the Venus well.

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Glamping With the Stars

Baua Electric

My roughly 60-mile section was marked by sienna-hued mesas and buttes, and cornflower-blue skies. With stargazing in mind, Under Canvas began working with DarkSky in 2021 to arrive at a lighting design plan. The wide valley between myself and Grand Staircase might have been two miles or 20, the scale was so unfathomable.

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