Gulf of Mexico upstream news

INEOS Energy and Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Shell plc, have today agreed to jointly invest in exploration and development opportunities, strengthening their collaboration and supporting long-term energy security, from areas in tieback distance to the Appomattox platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Nashville exploration well was drilled more than five miles beneath the seabed and confirmed high-quality oil in one of the Gulf’s most promising deepwater formations.

Water will be injected to displace additional oil in the reservoir formation which supplies production to Shell’s Ursa platform in the Mars Corridor.

Watson Farley & Williams advised Borr Drilling Limited on the acquisition.

Uncrewed technology collaboration in US Gulf of Mexico, from Sonardyne and SeaTrac Systems.

Seatrium Limited has been awarded a contract from bp for the engineering, procurement, construction and onshore commissioning of the Tiber Floating Production Unit (FPU) project in the Gulf of Mexico.

C-Innovation signs contract with Shell for ROV services.

This latest phase spans 151 OCS blocks and expands ultra-long offset low-frequency OBN coverage of the Paleogene trend to provide improved seismic data and subsurface imaging over this geologically complex area.

The environmental impact statement analyses the potential impacts of a representative oil and gas lease sale and post-lease issuance activities in available areas of the Gulf of America.

The discovery well was drilled to a total vertical depth of 33 228 ft utilising the West Vela deepwater drillship and encountered oil pay in multiple high-quality, sub-salt Miocene sands.