Courtesy: Sheila Walton
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Courtesy: Sheila Walton
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Courtesy: Benjamin Tucker
Living in Ingleside on the Bay it’s hard to miss the activity across the water happening almost daily at Kiewit Offshore Services in Ingleside, like this massive platform being towed by tugboats as it headed out to sea just before 6:00 a.m. Sunday morning, January 28th. It’s destined for the Shell ‘Whale’ Project, according to those familiar with the construction. “The Whale production facility is in the Alaminos Canyon Block 773 and is adjacent to the Shell-operated Silvertip field, approximately 10 miles from the Shelloperated Perdido platform and approximately 200 miles southwest of Houston,” the company posted on its website. “Discovered in 2017, Whale will feature a semi-submersible production host in more than 8,600 feet of water with 15 oil producing wells. Whale’s design closely replicates Vito, a four-column semi-submersible host facility located in the greater Mars Corridor,” the company detailed. Vito, like the platform that departed over the weekend, was also built at Kiewit.