Hornbeck Offshore Services has signed multiple agreements with Shell to provide deepwater well intervention and marine support services in the U.S. Gulf of America, with operations scheduled to begin in 2027.The agreements cover riser-based well intervention…
TechnipFMC and BP have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore cooperation on the supply of high-pressure subsea production systems for BP's Paleogene oil developments in the U.S. Gulf.The agreement, announced on October 20, establishes…
Guardian Decommissioning and Wild Well Control have signed an agreement for the decommissioning of the Bullwinkle offshore platform in Green Canyon Block 65 in the U.S. Gulf, with well abandonment activities scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026…
US producers in the Gulf of Mexico shut in about 1.3 million barrels per day of oil production and 1.1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas as Hurricane Isaias blew through the corridor ahead of an expected landfall somewhere between southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle later this week…
Shell and Chevron said on Wednesday they were curtailing offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Isaias approached the region.Shell said it was evacuating all personnel and shutting in production at its Mars, Olympus, Ursa…
Chevron said on Tuesday it was transporting non-essential personnel from its offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as a possible tropical storm approached the US Gulf Coast.'Production from Chevron-operated assets remains at normal levels…
For generations, the Gulf of America has served as the proving ground for offshore innovation. Every major chapter in modern offshore energy has depended upon American engineers, geoscientists, mariners, fabricators, regulators, and offshore workers to solve problems many believed were beyond reach…
The Trump administration will offer more than 81 million acres (32.8 million hectares) in the Gulf of America to oil and gas drillers as part of an effort to boost domestic energy production with regular offshore lease sales.The sale is the second since the U…
BP has started production from its Atlantis Major Facility Expansion project in the U.S. Gulf of America, adding new water injection capacity to boost oil recovery and extend the life of one of the company's flagship offshore assets.The project adds two new subsea water injection wells…
Chevron has shut in production at its Petronius platform in the U.S. Gulf of America and evacuated all associated personnel to shore as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches.The company said production from its other Chevron-operated assets in the Gulf remains at normal levels…
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued the final notice for its third Gulf of America offshore lease sale required under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, offering about 80.4 million acres on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf…
Talos Energy and an affiliate of Ridgewood Energy Corporation have agreed to acquire Shell's interests in the Na Kika platform and the Coulomb field in the Gulf of America in a deal valued at $1.7 billion.Under the agreement, Talos will acquire…
Energy services company EnerMech has completed a pipeline flushing and cleaning contract for Subsea7 as part of an offshore field decommissioning program in the Gulf of Mexico.The scope covered the flushing and cleaning of a long-distance deepwater…
Trendsetter Vulcan Offshore (TVO) has deployed its proprietary Hercules tethered blowout preventer (TBOP) system to bring a shut-in well in the Gulf of America back into production, enabling a deepwater drilling rig to carry out a shallow-water workover operation…