Gulf of Mexico upstream news

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has tested the oil and gas industry’s preparedness for subsea blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico.

C-Innovation and its family of companies have completed their 46th well intervention in the Gulf of Mexico.

With a gross production capacity of up to 140 000 bpd, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008.

The MOU aims to strengthen mutual cooperation to help enhance operational performance across North American natural gas and oil operations.

The company has been awarded a three-year contract by Shell to provide engineering and procurement services for several of its assets in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Equinor will retain 49% interest in the project, and Shell will become the new operator of the field. To reflect this change, Equinor and Shell have agreed to rename the North Platte development to the Sparta development.

In EIA’s June 2022 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the company forecast that new fields coming online in 2022 will account for 5% of natural gas production and 14% of crude oil production in the US Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico (GOM) by the end of 2023.

Jumbo Maritime has awarded Fugro a positioning and metocean services contract to help guide the safe transport and installation of a new floating production system (FPS) for Vito, a deepwater development in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Low-cost tieback expected to add up to 75 000 bbl per day of oil production.

The full development of Area 1 will include 33 wells connected to three wellhead platforms plus one monopod, in addition to the FPSO.