Gulf of Mexico upstream news

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.

Production has begun flowing through the Murphy-operated King’s Quay floating production system.

PowerNap is a subsea tie-back to the Shell-operated Olympus TLP, located in the US Gulf of Mexico with an estimated peak production of 20 000 boe/d.

Phase 1 of the Herschel Expansion project comprises development of a new subsea production system and the first of up to three wells tied to the Na Kika platform.

TotalEnergies will resign as operator of the North Platte deepwater project in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The project covers the tie-back of four subsea wells to the Shenandoah host facility through a subsea manifold with dual flowlines and risers.