According to some latest news, Shell Energy Resources Co. has started working at the world’s deepest offshore drilling and production facility in the Gulf of Mexico.

Moreover, the Perdido development sits in around 8,000 feet of water about 200 miles off the Texas coast.

In the meantime, the company, which is a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, said that it will make use of the facility to generate from three offshore fields that could need as many as 35 wells over the life of the fields.

According to the statement released by the company, “The development will ramp up to annual peak production of more than 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day -- equivalent to the energy needed to fuel 500 cars for 15 years.”

As per some sources, the life span of the project is expected to be 20 years.