Shell US Gulf Vito deepwater development comes online, 14 years after discovery
Fourteen years after its discovery, Shell subsidiary Shell Offshore’s long-awaited Vito deepwater field has started producing what will eventually be a peak output of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day into its new production hub in the US Gulf of Mexico, the company said Feb. 16. Discovered in 2009 and sited in the Mississippi Canyon area roughly 150 miles…