(Adds background on Exxon pipeline and Perdido hub, other
details)
By Liz Hampton
April 13 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on
Monday a leak in an Exxon Mobil Corp offshore pipeline
had shut in production at its 100,000 barrel per day Perdido
platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Shell temporarily halted production on April 9 after a
subsurface leak was discovered on Exxon's Hoover Offshore Oil
Pipeline System (HOOPS). Exxon has shut the pipeline for
repairs, a spokeswoman for Shell said.
HOOPS also connects the Exxon-operated Hoover, Marshall and
Madison offshore fields, which combined produce about 4,000
barrels of oil per day, according to a 2018 marketing brochure.
Exxon Mobil did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
The Perdido hub is in some 8,000 feet of water about 200
miles (321.9 km) south of Galveston, Texas, and is a joint
venture among Shell, BP Plc and Chevron Corp.
The 153-mile HOOPS pipeline brings oil from several offshore
oilfields to the Quintana Terminal near Freeport, Texas,
according to an Exxon website.
(Reporting by Liz Hampton in Houston
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Matthew Lewis)
