Gulf of Mexico upstream news

Diamond Offshore Drilling has announced that it has executed a two-year contract extension with a subsidiary of BP in the US Gulf of Mexico for the Ocean BlackLion.

W&T Offshore has announced that the Company has completed the accretive acquisition of six fields in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Beacon Offshore Energy has announced that several of its subsidiaries have taken final investment decision to develop the Winterfell discovery which is operated by BOE Exploration & Production and will be developed as a cost effective/low emissions subsea tieback.

Talos Energy has announced that it has successfully started oil and natural gas production at Talos's Lime Rock and Venice discoveries, located near its 100% owned and operated Ram Powell platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Shell Offshore Inc, a subsidiary of Shell plc, today announced the final investment decision (FID) for Sparta, a deep-water development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

The company has completed a well cement placement project for a large international operator in the US Gulf of Mexico, delivering an inner-string cementing on a subsea well's 22 in. surface casing in a water depth of approximately 2000 m.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a contract to manufacture flexible pipe by Woodside Energy.

Seatrium Ltd (Seatrium) has announced the successful delivery of the floating production unit (FPU), Whale, for deployment in the Gulf of Mexico, in accordance with the contract secured in November 2019 with Shell Offshore Inc.

Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill said the quarter-on-quarter increase in output to 47.8 million boe was underpinned by strong operating results at Pluto LNG.

Kosmos Energy has announced an oil discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico at the Tiberius exploration well. Kosmos is operator of the well and has a 33.34% working interest alongside Occidental and Equinor ASA (both 33.33%).