Shell's Auger oil platform restart still set for Q4

NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell toldanalysts on Thursday it still expects the 55,000 barrel-per-day(bpd) Auger crude oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexicoto restart in the fourth quarter 2013.

The Auger platform was shut in July to connect a new oilfield, Cardamom, to Auger's infrastructure.

Simon Henry, Shell's chief financial officer, told analystson a conference call that production from the Cardamom field wasexpected to start in 2014, but was not more specific about thetiming.

An Auger pipeline feeds the Bonito sour crude stream,according to the Shell website. (Reporting by Robert Gibbons; editing by Jim Marshall)