World Oil HOUSTON (Bloomberg) – Exxon Mobil Corp. submitted bids for 94 drilling leases in shallow waters near the Texas coastline, an apparent step forward for a giant proposed carbon-capture project close to Houston’s industrial corridor. The oil explorer faced no competition for the leases across underwater hills and valleys with names such as Brazos and High Island during a
World Oil Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has safely and successfully re-started production at its Mars and Ursa platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico and began exporting oil and gas through the West Delta-143 (WD-143) “A” facility. “Our Hurricane Ida recovery efforts are the latest example of how our people come together with great
World Oil WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) –The Biden administration moved Tuesday to resume selling oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico and throughout the western U.S., after a judge ruled the president’s leasing pause was unlawful. The Interior Department said it planned to issue a formal notice in September to reschedule a Gulf lease auction and would take steps
Nasdaq Global miner BHP Group BHPB.L, BHP.AX said on Friday it would spend $544 million to develop its Shenzi North oil project in the Gulf of Mexico, and approved advancing its Trion oil project in Mexico into the design and engineering phase. BHP, which is the operator of Shenzi North and holds a 72% stake in it, said the project will add
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Reuters HOUSTON – The first storm to hit oil-producing regions of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico this year sent workers fleeing offshore oil platforms and cut some production. A weather disturbance in the central Gulf of Mexico was expected to become a tropical storm on Friday. It was moving north at about 14 miles per hour (22 kmh) and could
Reuters Miner BHP Group BHP.AX sold its 35% stake in Neptune field in Gulf of Mexico to EnVen Energy Corp ENVN.N for an undisclosed sum, making the independent oil and gas company one of the largest operators of a major offshore platform. EnVen already owned a 30% stake in Neptune field, located in the deepwater, central Gulf of Mexico and operated by BHP. The
Oil and Gas 360 HOUSTON, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Talos Energy Inc. (“Talos” or the “Company”) (NYSE:TALO), along with affiliates of bp plc (“bp”) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (“Chevron”) (collectively, the “Co-Owners”) today announced successful drilling results from the Puma West exploration project located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Green Canyon Block 821. The Puma West well was
Reuters JERUSALEM – Israel’s Navitas Petroleum said on Tuesday the Blackstone Group signed a preliminary deal to raise its stake in a drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico to 47% from 16%. Navitas had partnered with U.S. oil firm LLOG and Blackstone’s portfolio company Beacon Offshore Energy in drilling at the Shenandoah discovery that holds 431 million barrels of
EIA Oil & Gas 360 Publishers Note: To help understand the OPEC + members, take a look at the breakeven crude oil prices. Breakeven is is the fiscal breakeven, the minimum price that a country needs to receive per barrel of crude oil sold for its government to meet its immediate spending needs and balance its budget. This says a
Oil and Gas 360 HOUSTON, Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Talos Energy Inc. (“Talos” or the “Company”) (NYSE: TALO) today announced the filing of a preliminary Schedule 14C information statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), an important regulatory step towards closing of the Company’s previously announced acquisition of affiliates of ILX Holdings, among other entities (the “Acquired Assets”, the “Acquisition”,
Source: Houston Chronicle The evacuation of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Barry caused oil production there to fall more than 330,000 barrels in July, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday. The agency estimates more than 280 platforms were evacuated, causing 70 percent of Gulf oil wells to be shut in. “This hurricane-related decrease was the
