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摘要

The Engineer's take on the launch of Shell's then-record-breaking Perdido platform Then the world's deepest oil drilling project, Shell's Perdido platform came on stream in 2009. Jon Excell reported on its development.World records don't stand for long in the frontier-busting business of deep-sea oil and gas, but when Shell's Perdido platform goes online early next year, it will, for a while at least, be the deepest drilling and production facility on the face of the planet.