Gulf of Mexico
Anadarko to complete Shenandoah appraisal program The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) and its partners, ConocoPhillips, Cobalt International Energy (Cobalt) and Marathon Petroleum Corporation (Marathon), implement their appraisal program for the Shenandoah offshore project in the US Gulf of Mexico. Discovered in 2009, the Shenandoah crude oil field belongs to Blocks 51 and 52 in […]
Woodside signed agreement on Grassy Point LNG The Australian company Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and the Government of British Columbia (BC) signed an agreement to open a greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Grassy Point along the west coast of Canada. This Grassy Point project comes at the end of a list of more than […]
BP to re-tender Mad Dog 2 FEED on Atlantis concept BP is preparing the second call for tender on the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the Mad Dog-2 offshore platform based on the semi-submersible concept used for Atlantis in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. Originally BP intended to develop the second […]
Semi-sub Chevron Buckskin project at pre-FEED stage The US super major Chevron and its partners, Maersk Oil (Maersk) from Denmark, Repsol from Spain and Samson Offshore Company (Samson) from USA, may consider to move a step ahead with the development of the oil and gas field Buckskin in the US part of the Gulf of […]
Wood County on line to host Ascent Complex project The Brazilian companies Odebrecht and Braskem are currently investigating the opportunity to develop the Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise (Ascent) Petrochemical complex project at Parkersburg in the Wood County of West Virginia, USA. Joining Shell with its Appalachia Ethane Cracker project, Odebrecht and Braskem are exploring a new business model in […]
Shell and Nexen to take experience from Olympus In order to develop the challenging Appomattox oil field in the US Gulf of Mexico, the Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and its partner Nexen, a wholly owned subsidiary of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), intends to take the lessons learnt from the Olympus Tension Leg […]
Technip still in the race for BP Mad Dog-2 concept The French engineering company Technip is still in the race for the concept to develop BP Mad Dog Phase 2 project offshore USA in the Gulf of Mexico. As part of strategic alliance between BP and Technip on the single point anchor reservoir (SPAR) concept, AMEC and […]
USA Key Projects and Business Highlights In June 2013, the US energy agency, Energy Information Administration (EIA) updated its estimation of the shale gas reserves in the world and published its first estimations for the shale oil where USA ranks in the Top 5 countries in both cases. According to the 41 countries analyzed by the EIA, […]
