(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Nov.2024) — Nauticus Robotics, Inc., which offers subsea robotics and software, successfully completed its initial 2024 Gulf of Mexico (GOM) survey scope for Shell plc‘s subsidiary Shell […]
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Nauticus Robotics Reports Second Round of Aquanaut Mark 2 Testing
(Nauticus Robtics, 17.Sep.2024) — Nauticus Robtics, Inc., a innovator in autonomous subsea robotics and software, began its second round of qualification testing of its flagship underwater vehicle, Aquanaut Mark 2, in […]
Tropical Cyclone Six Impact to the Port: Hurricane Readiness Condition 3
(Port of Corpus Christi, 9.Sep.2024) — Due to the active tropical conditions anticipated in the Gulf of Mexico, the Port of Corpus Christi has increased its Hurricane Readiness Status to Hurricane Readiness […]
Kosmos Starts Oil Production at Winterfell in the U.S. GOM
(Kosmos Energy, 3.Jul.2024) — Kosmos Energy Ltd. announced the successful start-up of oil production at the Winterfell development in the Green Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Winterfell (Kosmos 25.04% working interest) […]
Oceaneering Awarded Multiple Contracts for Vessel Services in the US GOM
(Oceaneering, 27.Jun.2024) — Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that its Offshore Projects Group (OPG) segment has been awarded multiple contractual agreements for vessel services with global energy companies, covering operations in the […]
W&T Offshore Closes Acquisition of Six GOM Fields
(W&T Offshore, 22.Jan.2024) — W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) has completed the accretive acquisition of six fields in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. W&T was the successful bidder […]
DeepOcean Completes Trenching Project in US GOM
(DeepOcean, 22.Jan.2024) — The US operation of ocean services provider DeepOcean has successfully completed the burial of a fuel support pipeline in the US Gulf of Mexico on behalf of […]
Shell Takes FID for Phased Wells at Perdido in US Gulf of Mexico
(Shell, 12.Dec.2023) — Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Shell plc (Shell), announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for a phased campaign to deliver three wells in the Great White unit […]
CGG Releases New GeoVerse Carbon Storage Study for Gulf of Mexico
(CGG, 3.Oct.2023) — CGG announced the delivery of the eastern phase of its GeoVerse™ Carbon Storage Gulf of Mexico Study and commencement of the westward extension of the study. Both […]
Arena Energy Awarded Seven Blocks in GOM Lease Sale 259
(Arena, 14.Sep.2023) — Arena Energy, LLC, an independent oil and gas exploration company focused on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf, recently announced it was awarded seven leases by the Bureau […]
Third Coast Buys ArcLight Interest in Perdido Platform
(Third Coast, 5.Jul.2023) — Third Coast Super Holdings, LLC announced a subsidiary has successfully acquired an indirect 26.5% non-operated interest in the Perdido Regional Host from a subsidiary of ArcLight Energy Partners Fund […]
Shell Starts Production at Vito in US GOM
(Shell, 16.Feb.2023) — Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Shell plc, announced that production has started at the Shell-operated Vito floating production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). […]
Newpark Completes Gulf of Mexico Transactions
(Newpark Resources, 28.Dec.2022) — Newpark Resources, Inc. (NYSE: NR) completed the previously announced transactions, which effectively provide for the company’s exit from the Gulf of Mexico market. The two completed transactions include the […]
Llano-6 Well, Gulf of Mexico, Achieves First Production
(Hess, 13.Sep.2022) — The Llano-6 well in the Gulf of Mexico delivered first production on 4 Augustm 2022. The well is a tieback to Shell’s Auger facility. This latest achievement […]
W&T Offshore Reveals Bolt-on Acquisition of Producing Properties in the US GOM
(W&T Offshore, 5.Apr.2022) — W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) has acquired the remaining working interests in the oil and gas producing properties purchased earlier this year from an undisclosed private […]
Petrobras Releases Teaser For GOM E&P Assets
(Petrobras, 4.Oct.2021) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), regarding the sale of the entire 20% stake held by its subsidiary Petrobras America Inc. (PAI) in the company MP […]
Talos Updates On Recent Drilling
(Talos, 26.Jul.2021) — Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) announced preliminary production estimates for the second quarter of 2021, successful first production from the company’s Tornado Attic well and successful drilling […]
Shell Reports Deep-Water Find At Leopard Prospect
(Shell, 11.May.2021) — Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, announced a significant discovery at the Leopard prospect in the deep-water U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The Leopard well encountered more […]
Hess Updates On Ops In The US, Guyana And Malaysia
(Hess, 27.Jan.2021) — Hess Corporation provided operational highlights from the fourth quarter of 2020 and its operations in the US Bakken, the US Gulf of Mexico, offshore Guyana and Malaysia. […]
Kosmos Boast GOM Exploration Success
(Kosmos, 19.Jan.2021) — Kosmos Energy announced an oil discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico at the Winterfell infrastructure-led exploration (“ILX”) well (Kosmos working interest 17.5%). Winterfell was designed to […]
BHP Buys Additional 28% Interest In Shenzi From Hess
(BHP, 6.Oct.2020) — BHP signed a Membership Interest Purchase and Sale Agreement with Hess Corporation (Hess) to acquire an additional 28% working interest in Shenzi, a six-lease development in the […]
Hess To Divest Interests In Shenzi Field, Gulf of Mexico
(Hess, 5.Oct.2020) — Hess entered into an agreement to sell its 28% working interest in the Shenzi Field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to BHP Billiton, the field’s operator, […]
Talos Not Impacted By Expanded Moratorium
(Talos 9.Sep.2020) — Talos Energy Inc. issued a statement clarifying the company’s business will not be impacted by the recently announced Presidential Order extending the current moratorium on oil and […]
Saudi Arabia Turns Off America’s Oil Taps Again
(Bloomberg, 9.Aug.2020) — The strategy worked wonders in 2017. It will be more challenging this time around unless the pandemic eases its grip on oil demand. For the second time […]
After The Crash: Five Key Changes In The US GOM
(WoodMac, 4.Jun.2020) — The oil price crash has come at a time when the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is leaner and nimbler. It is better prepared to weather the […]
Greenbrier Marine Announces Vessel Delivery
(Greenbrier, 2.Jun.2020) — Greenbrier Marine, a division of The Greenbrier Companies, Inc., announced it has delivered the OSG 204, a 204,000 barrel capacity oil and chemical tank barge for dual-mode […]
Pemex’s Oil Reserves Replacement Rate Jumps
(Reuters, 11.May.2020) — The replacement rate of proven oil and gas reserves estimated by Mexican national oil company Pemex soared in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to the […]
Ecopetrol Exploration Activities Update
(Ecopetrol, 30.Apr.2020) — It is the first link in Ecopetrol’s value chain. Its main objective is to explore, discover and appraise commercially viable hydrocarbon accumulations, seeking to ensure the reserve […]
Equinor Reports GOM Oil Discovery
(Equinor, 6.Apr.2020) — Equinor and co-venturers Progress Resources USA Ltd and Repsol E&P USA Inc. have encountered oil in the Monument exploration well in the US Gulf of Mexico. The […]
Three Injured In Fire On Akal-C6 Platform
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2020) — Three people were injured in a fire on a platform run by Mexican state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Tuesday, the company said, briefly leading to […]
Total Advances Two Deepwater GOM Projects
(Total, 16.Dec.2019) — Total announces the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Anchor oil field. Additionally, front-end engineering and design (FEED) has begun for the North Platte discovery. Both […]
Equinor Says Brazil ‘Hotspot’ Of Int’l Efforts
(Reuters, 26.Nov.2019) — Norway’s Equinor plans to drill 30-40 oil and gas exploration wells globally in 2020, similar this year, with Brazil being a “hotspot” of its international efforts, the […]
Ecopetrol Targets Higher CAPEX In 2020
(Ecopetrol, 25.Nov.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. reported that in 2020 the Ecopetrol Group (GE) plans to invest an expected US$4.5 to US$5.5 billion, 25% to 53% higher than the estimated 2019 […]
Valaris Announces New Contract Awards
(Valaris, 25.Nov.2019) — Valaris plc announced new contracts and contract extensions, with associated revenue backlog of approximately $285 million, awarded subsequent to a prior fleet status report dated October 25, […]
Third Circuit Rejects Citgo Rehearing
(Argus, Elliott Blackburn, 21.Nov.2019) — Federal appeals court judges have denied Venezuela’s request to rehear a July decision upholding the pursuit of the country’s US refining subsidiary Citgo to satisfy […]
Ecopetrol Finds Oil In GOM Deep Waters
(Ecopetrol, 7.Nov.2019) — Ecopetrol reports that its US subsidiary, Ecopetrol America LLC, has participated in the drilling of the Esox-1 well under a Farmout Agreement with Chevron U.S.A. Inc. The […]
TechnipFMC Inks GOM EPCI Contract For PowerNap
(Technip, 22.Aug.2019) — TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant(1) integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCI™) contract by Shell for the PowerNap project, located in the Gulf of Mexico. TechnipFMC […]
Capital Discipline In GOM Lease Sale: WoodMac
(WoodMac, 21.Aug.2019) — Capital discipline remains key for offshore operators, judging by the results of today’s US Gulf of Mexico region-wide lease sale. Lease Sale 253 attracted 165 bids from […]
Core Lab Reports 2Q:19 Results
(Core Laboratories, 24.Jul.2019) — Core Laboratories N.V. reported that continuing operations resulted in second quarter 2019 revenue of $169,000,000. Second quarter 2019 revenue was impacted by a mid-quarter divestment of […]
Shell Commences Production At Appomattox Field In U.S. Gulf Of Mexico
(Shell, 23.May.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Offshore Inc (Shell) announces today that production has started at the Shell-operated Appomattox floating production system months ahead of […]
Equinor Boosts Stake In Caesar Tonga Field In Deepwater US GOM
(Equinor, 13.May.2019) — Equinor has exercised its preferential rights to acquire an additional 22.45% interest in the Caesar Tonga oil field from Shell Offshore Inc for a total consideration of […]
Delek’s US GOM Caesar Tonga Oil Acquisition Cancelled
(Globes, 12.May.2019) — One of the existing partners has exercised its first right of refusal on the rights in the Caesar Tonga oil field. The share price of Delek Group […]
Talos Energy Conference Call And Webcast Information
(Talos, 8.May.2019) — Talos Energy Inc. will host a conference call, which will also be broadcast live over the internet, on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 10:00 am Eastern Time […]
Newpark Resources Reports 1Q:19 Results, GOM Update
(Newpark, 25.Apr.2019) — Newpark Resources, Inc. today announced results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2019. Total revenues for the first quarter of 2019 were $211.5 million compared to […]
Shell Announces Deep-Water GOM Discovery At Blacktip Prospect
(Shell, 24.Apr.2019) — Shell Offshore Inc. (“Shell”), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, today announced a significant discovery at the Blacktip prospect in the deep water U.S. Gulf of […]
Shell Strikes Big Oil In Blacktip Well Of Gulf Of Mexico
(Reuters, 24.Apr.2019) — Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. unit said on Wednesday that it had made one of its biggest oil discoveries in the Blacktip deepwater well in the U.S. Gulf […]
Murphy Oil Dives Into Deepwater GOM With $1.6bn LLOG Bluewater Deal
(WoodMac, 23.Apr.2019) — Murphy Oil Exploration is poised to buy several deepwater Gulf of Mexico assets from LLOG Exploration for a total of US$1.625 billion, split into a US$1.375 billion […]
Petrobras And Murphy Conclude Formation Of GOM Joint Venture
(Petrobras, 3.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on October 10, 2018, concluded the operation that has resulted in the formation of a joint venture company (JV), of […]
Petrobras, Murphy Oil Create US Gulf Joint Venture
(S&P Global Platts, 11.Oct.2018) — Brazilian state-led oil company Petrobras and Murphy Oil will combine production assets in the US Gulf of Mexico in a joint venture that will produce […]
Two Companies to Ship Fuels from US to Mexico
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 11.Aug.2018) – To-date, two oil companies are working to export fuels from the U.S.A. to neighboring Mexico, through the Port of Brownsville. “Our main client […]