Gyrfalcon

Schematic of the Gyrfalcon development. Image provided by Offshore-Technology.com.

• Gyrfalcon was discovered in 1997.
• Gyrfalcon is located in Green Canyon Block 20, in 880 feet of water.  It is approximately 155 miles SW of New Orleans, LA. 
• Shell is 100% owner of Gyrfalcon.  
• Gyrfalcon ties back to the Shell Boxer facility, approximately three miles away.

Gyrfalcon is the world's first 15,000 psi subsea well.  

• The field was developed as a simple one-well tie-back with a single full-pressure rated flowline, a steel pipe jumper, direct hydraulic controls and continuous methanol injection. 
• The subsea well recorded a bottom hole pressure of 14,700 psig at a depth of 17,850 ft.  The design pressure at the tree level was calculated to be 12,200 psig.  Shell worked with its contractors to develop the world’s first 15k-psig subsea tree.
   

Gyrfalcon began production in 1999.