Mars Crude Oil Pipeline
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Mars Crude Oil Pipeline is an operating oil pipeline in the United States.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from the Mississippi Canyon in the Gulf Coast to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) in Clovelly, Louisiana.[2][3]
Project details
- Operator:
- Owner: Mars Oil Pipeline Company LLC[4][5]
- Parent company: Shell Midstream Partners LP [71.5%], BP [28.5%][6]
- Capacity: 600,000 barrels per day (bpd)
- Diameter: 18 inches, 24 inches
- Length: 163 miles
- Status: Operating
- Start year: 1996
Background
Mars Crude Oil Pipeline is an 18- to 24-inch, 163-mile pipeline originating approximately 130 miles offshore. It transports oil production from the Mississippi Canyon area in the north-central Gulf of Mexico, south of Louisiana, from the Olympus and Mars platforms and the Medusa and Ursa pipelines.[6] It has capacities up to 600,000 bpd. It delivers oil to the Fourchon and LOOP Clovelly Terminals in Louisiana.[1]
In August 2022, a Mars pipeline leak of approximately two barrels of oil caused a temporary shutdown of three Shell drilling platforms.[7]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mars Crude Oil Pipeline, A Barrel Full, accessed September 2017
- ↑ "Shell offshore pipelines map" (PDF). shell.us. 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Geographic Mapping Data in Digital Format". www.data.boem.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ↑ "Shell Midstream Partners LP announces Mars Oil Pipeline has resumed normal operations". Shell. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "SEC Mars financials". sec.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Mars Fact Sheet," Shell, accessed September 2017
- ↑ Stewart, Robert (12 August 2022). "Shell shuts down oil production at three Gulf of Mexico platforms after pipeline leak". The Advocate. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
