A U.S. offshore regulator on Wednesday said efforts to resume a federal oil and gas leasing program are underway and would soon bear results following a court decision ending a suspension.The Biden administration this week challenged the court decision…
Oil and gas producers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico have consolidated at a faster rate during the pandemic, new government data shows, as crashing prices squeezed out smaller drillers who had been seen as the industry's future.The dominance of…
Australian oil company Woodside confirmed Monday it has been in talks with BHP over the potential acquisition of BHP's oil and gas business.'Woodside notes recent speculation regarding a potential transaction between Woodside and BHP Petroleum…
Optical fiber sensors provider Silixa on Wednesday announced the successful installation, validation, and borehole seismic acquisition from a permanently installed fiber-optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) system, Carina Subsea 4D, on BP’s Atlantis Phase 3 subsea field development…
U.S. oilfield services firm Gate Energy has won a deal with Shell for facility commissioning of the recently sanctioned Whale development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Shell last month reached a final investment decision for the Whale deepwater field development…
Williams (NYSE: WMB) reached an agreement with Shell Offshore Inc. and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to provide offshore natural gas gathering and crude oil transportation services as well as onshore natural gas processing services for the Whale development…
Mexico's methane leak rate from oil and gas operations is twice as high as that of the world's top oil producer, the United States, a group of researchers found in a report due to be released this week.Invisible and odorless but much more harmful than carbon dioxide…
U.S. oil and gas exploration and production firm Talos Energy has started production from its Tornado Attic well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.After successful drilling of the Tornado Attic well, announced in June 2021, Talos executed completion…
Oil major Shell has reached a final investment decision for its Whale deepwater field development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Discovered in 2017, Whale will feature a semi-submersible production host in more than 8,600 feet (2621 meters) of water with 15 oil-producing wells…
U.S. oilfield services provider Danos has won a contract with an unnamed Gulf of Mexico operator for construction operations on two shelf assets, located approximately 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Work for the contract is expected to last through the end of 2021…
Mexico chose state-owned Pemex to run a major shared oil find over the private consortium led by a U.S. oil company that first discovered it, in the latest win for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's nationalistic energy policies.The disputed deposit…
Just days after a video of a massive ocean surface blaze near a Pemex oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico went viral, Mexico's national oil company has declared that environmental damage was avoided due to quick action by its workers.The July 2 blaze…
A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the blaze captured in videos that went viral.Bright…
Oil and gas firm LLOG on Wednesday announced the first production from its Praline offshore field, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 74 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.The Praline well was drilled in 2,600 feet of water to a total depth of 13,400 feet and discovered over 125 feet of net hydrocarbons…
Oil major BP said Wednesday it had started up production from the Manuel project in the US Gulf of Mexico, 'the fourth of five major projects expected to be delivered globally in 2021.'The Manuel development is located on Mississippi Canyon block 520…