Shell announces early production start at Appomattox.
The Appomattox Court House.
Shell starts production at Appomattox in the GOM.
We grant that Mr. McConnell was not alive for Appomattox.
He later called it the"second surrender of Lee at Appomattox.".
Five months after the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in September 1865,
Lee was offered the job as the school's president.
On April 9, 1865,
with his troops heavily outnumbered in the town of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, Lee knew it was time.
One week later, on April 9th,
General Grant and General Lee met at the Appomattox Court House to sign the Confederacy's official surrender.
Shell's Appomattox host has now arrived on location in the US Gulf of
Mexico and is expected to start production before the end of 2019.
Just over hundred years earlier, on January 14,
1865,(which was several months before General Lee's surrender at Appomattox) Seattle, Washington was incorporated as a city.
At Appomattox, Lee is said to have remarked to Parker,"I am glad
to see one real American here", to which Parker replied,"We are all Americans.
The ultra-deepwater Appomattox development, a joint venture between Shell(79%,
operator) and CNOOC(21%), is one of the largest projects launched in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years.
The Appomattox development, a joint venture between Shell(79%,
operator) and CNOOC(21%), is one of the largest projects launched in the US Gulf of Mexico in recent years.
The Appomattox semi is a“monster” facility that has“taken almost an urban planning approach,” Turner says,
noting its potential as a game changer for future investment opportunities around Appomattox as a hub.
Since taking final investment decision(FID) for Appomattox in 2015, the project has realized cost
reductions of more than 40% thanks to optimized development planning, design and fabrication, and drilling execution, Shell said.