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 southeast of New Orleans, the Vito field stretches across four blocks at a depth of more than 4,000 feet of water, Shell said in a statement.
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