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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. The area will be offered to industry again in 2016 under the current Five Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
The Blazer EV offers multiple distinct trims, multiple range options—including an available GM-estimated range of up to 320 miles on a full charge—and available front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive configurations. Blazer EV will be produced at GM’s Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, production facility, which manufactures the current Blazer.
The US and Mexico have signed an agreement on the exploration and development of oil and natural gas reservoirs along the United States’ and Mexico’s maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico. The US-Mexico maritime boundary (and Western Gap) in the Gulf of Mexico. Source: Richard McLaughlin.Click to enlarge.
Marathon Oil Corporation announced that its Droshky development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has begun production on time and under budget. This marks the first new deepwater production since the Obama Administration halted drilling after the Deepwater Horizon accident. The new well had already been drilled at the time of the incident.
Beaudreau announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales. BOEM estimates the proposed sale could result in the production of approximately 1 billion barrels of oil and 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. billion in high bids.
Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Components of the e-gas plant.
Shell has begun production from the Mars B development through Olympus—the company’s seventh, and largest, floating deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Mars B development is located about 210 kilometers (130 miles) south of New Orleans; 192 people will live and work on the Olympus platform.
miles) below the water’s surface, is located in the Tobago Field 200 miles southwest of Houston in the ultra-deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. From Perdido, Shell accesses the Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip oil and gas fields through subsea wells directly below the facility and from wells up to seven miles away.
Sempra International’s Mexican business unit Sempra Mexico has been awarded two contracts by Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s state-owned electric utility, to construct, own and operate an approximately 500-mile (820-kilometers), $1-billion pipeline network connecting the Northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
BP announced a giant oil discovery at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The well, located in Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 kilometers) south east of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 metres) of water. BP advances in drilling depth and reach.
The US Department of the Interior held a 39-million acre lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The US Department of the Interior reported that Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 238 attracted $109,951,644 million in high bids for 81 tracts covering 433,823 acres on the US Outer Continental Shelf offshore Texas. A total of 14 offshore energy companies submitted 93 bids. The lease sale, which offered 21.6 The lease sale, which offered 21.6
Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has started production at the Shell-operated Vito floating production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Vito is Shell’s 13 th deep-water host in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell is the leading operator in the US Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas production.
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Beaudreau released the final details for an oil and gas lease sale that will offer more than 20 million acres offshore and will make available all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. The most recent sale in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning area, Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 218, took place on 14 December 2011.
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Shell announced its third major discovery in the Norphlet play in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the successful Rydberg exploration well. After more than 10 years of exploration activities in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, Shell continues to lead industry in exploring this Jurassic play. Norphlet play. Click to enlarge.
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) made a final investment decision in the Stones ultra-deepwater project, a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas development expected to host the deepest production facility in the world. With an FPSO, tankers will transport oil from the Stones FPSO to US refineries, and gas will be transported by pipeline.
The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. The Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service estimates that the Gulf of Mexico contains 36-41.5
Chevron Corporation has sanctioned development of its $4-billion Big Foot project in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Big Foot will be Chevron’s sixth operated facility in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and located approximately 225 miles (360 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 5,200 feet (1,600 m).
BP announced today the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The facility was designed to process 80,000 barrels of oil and 60 million cubic feet of gas per day. in about 4,500 feet (1,371 meters) of water. BP maintains a 60.5%
Chevron announced that crude oil and natural gas production has begun at the ultra-deepwater Jack/St. Malo project in the Lower Tertiary trend, US Gulf of Mexico. Malo fields are among the largest in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier post.) The Jack and St. The Jack and St.
Malo project, its first operated project located in the Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Malo fields are located within 25 miles (40 km) of each other approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 7,000 feet (2,100 m). million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
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The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 20 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) billion in high bids for more than 2.4 million acres.
announced discoveries at the Tamar Southwest (SW) exploration well offshore Israel and at the Dantzler exploration well in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble’s discovered resources in the Eastern Mediterranean now totals nearly 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Noble Energy, Inc. with 20 percent.
for deep water umbilical projects in the Gulf of Mexico that could be worth as much as $300 million in total. During the term of the agreement, Nexans could deliver more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) of umbilical products to BP. and Nexans for the Gulf of Mexico, which ran from 2002 to 2008.
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Shell has begun production from the Stones development in the Gulf of Mexico. The host facility for the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas project is a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. miles) of water. miles) of water.
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Hess Corporation will proceed with the development of Tubular Bells, a deepwater oil and gas project operated by Hess in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered in 2003, Tubular Bells is located approximately 135 miles southeast of New Orleans in the Mississippi Canyon area. The development is estimated to cost $2.3
GE Oil & Gas will supply three customized aeroderivative gas turbine-generator modules to provide reliable electric power for a new Chevron floating production unit that will produce oil and gas from the Jack and St. million cubic feet of natural gas per day. The LM2500+G4. The LM2500+G4. Click to enlarge.
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Walton Smith in the Gulf of Mexico on an oceanographic research cruise that will return to port this coming weekend. It’s also unique as it has introduced both oil and methane gas into the deep, cold waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The team is aboard the research vessel F.G. Samantha Joye.
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