Shell Drills World’s Largest Offshore Well in GOM… and Finds “Elbowed” Squid

Contributed by Terri Larson

Royal Dutch Shell said today they have drilled the world's deepest o ffshore well at a prospect called Perdido in the Silvertip Field in the Gulf of Mexico. The well is 9,356 feet below the surface.

Also, from the Perdido drilling site, a Shell ROV captured an "an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid." Click here to see the video. According to an accompanying National Geographic article, this is the "...first sighting of a Magnapinna at an oil development" and "...is evidence of how, as oil- and gas-industry ROVs dive deeper and stay down longer, they are yielding valuable footage of deep-sea animals."

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