Mensa Offshore Gas Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Shell
• Country: USA
• Location: Mississippi Canyon Blocks 686, 687, 730 & 731
• Production start: 1997
• Partners:
• Type: Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

+++ Description

• The field is located in 5,286 feet of water
• Mensa field had three wells initially and now has four that feed into a manifold connected via a 12-inch pipeline to the West Delta 143C platform just over 100 kilometres away
• At the time, Mensa was the deepest offshore development ever
• Gas is transported on the Mississippi Canyon Gas Pipeline

+++ Contractors

• **Nexans:** E/H Umbilical and Electrical Umbilical

+++ History

• 1986 - Mensa Offshore Gas Field discovered
• 1997 - First gas produced

+++ Geology

+++ Links

1. Shell, Deepwater
2. Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields
3. Nexans Norway Umbilical References