After taking a partial cash offer for assets in the region, Royal Dutch Shell said it started production at its deepest project yet in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell said it started production from the Stones development in the Gulf of Mexico using a floating production, storage and offloading vessel, the 13th such facility in its portfolio and, tapping a basin beneath 1.8 miles of water, the world’s deepest such development . “Our growing expertise in using such technologies in innovative ways will help us unlock more deep-water resources around the world,” Andy Brown, the director for exploration and product projects for Shell, said in a statement. By the end of next year, the company said Stones should be producing around […]