石油设备网讯 据WENews.com网站1月31日休斯敦报道，石油巨头荷兰皇家壳牌公司宣布，其麾下美国子公司壳牌海上公司日前在其部署在美国墨西哥湾的Whale深水井中获得了过去10年里的最大石油发现之一。
壳牌公司担任Whale深水井的作业者，其合作伙伴是拥有相同股份的美国石油巨头雪佛龙公司。
壳牌海上公司在一份没有提供数据的声明中说，这个发现的评价工作正在进行中，而评价钻井也在进行中以便确定发现的范围以及确定开发选项。
壳牌公司在墨西哥湾有3个正在实施的深水项目，在过去10年里壳牌在墨西哥湾的资源量增加了10多亿桶油当量。
壳牌公司预计来自已经建立地区的全球深水日产量在2020年前将超过90万桶油当量。
李峻 编译自 WENews.com
原文如下：
Shell Makes Big Deepwater Oil Discovery in Gulf of Mexico
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell said its U.S. unit had made one of its biggest oil discoveries in the past decade in the Whale deepwater well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The Whale is operated by Shell and co-owned by U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp.
"evaluation of the discovery was ongoing, and appraisal drilling is underway to further delineate the discovery and define development options," Shell Offshore Inc said in a statement without giving figures.
Shell has three Gulf of Mexico deepwater projects under construction -- Appomattox, Kaikias and Coulomb Phase 2. It has added more than one billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) resources in the last decade in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company said it expected global deepwater production to exceed 900,000 boe per day by 2020, from already established areas.
