Shell puts Ursa back in action

Shell restarts its Ursa platform in the US Gulf of Mexico after an extended outage for repairs.

Ursa, which feeds into the Mars pipeline system, was designed to produce up to 150,000 barrels of oil per day and 400 million cubic feet of gas per day. Shell is starting to bring the Ursa platform back online. On 3 November, the nearby Mars platform was shut for planned work but its outage was extended after a small export pipeline leak was discovered. An exact date for the shutdown of Ursa was not disclosed but they pointed out that unrelated maintenance was performed on it and as a result the shutdown was extended to several days. The Mars crude oil pipeline system transports approximately 300,000 barrels per day of deepwater sour crudes to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port.
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