U.S. Offshore
News
June 16, 2025
EnerMech has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil to deliver a complete flowline decommissioning package for the Hoover Diana development in the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America. The scope marks EnerMech’s first major decommissioning campaign in the region.
News
June 16, 2025
TotalEnergies has acquired a 25% working interest in a portfolio of 40 exploration leases offshore U.S. from Chevron (operator). The transaction provides access to multiple offshore exploration plays and prospects, strengthening the successful U.S. offshore collaboration with Chevron beyond existing partnerships.
News
June 12, 2025
Oceaneering International, Inc. (Oceaneering) announced today that its Offshore Projects Group (OPG) segment has entered into a vessel services agreement with a major operator for use of the MPSV Harvey Deep Sea.
News
June 11, 2025
The Gulf’s rising importance represents a turnaround from the past two decades, when the region took a backseat to the U.S. shale boom. But now tumbling crude prices are hurting shale drillers while major, longer-term Gulf projects are starting to come online.
News
May 22, 2025
Leaders from the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), issued statements today in support of the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the 2025 tax reconciliation bill.
News
May 22, 2025
Expro has been awarded Tubular Running Services (TRS) contracts by two leading operators in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico, covering both deepwater drillships and platform rigs. The contracts will integrate Expro's E&P Special Meritorious award-winning Centri-FITM platform.
News
May 21, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council on Tuesday released a statement applauding the Trump Administration's release of the revised Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico Biological Opinion (BiOp) that ensures regulatory certainty and continuity for offshore oil and gas operations.
News
May 20, 2025
Leaders from the American Petroleum Institute and National Ocean Industries Association today voiced their support of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service’s release of a new biological opinion for the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico.
News
May 20, 2025
U.S. officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have lifted the stop-work order for Equinor's Empire Wind project, offshore New York. “I would like to thank President Trump for finding a solution that provides for continued investments in energy infrastructure in the U.S.," said Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor ASA.
News
May 20, 2025
TDI-Brooks has recently finalized a geological evaluation in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico on behalf of Enbridge. For this project, TDI-Brooks utilized the R/V BROOKS MCCALL, executing 38 piston cores (PC), 7 gravity cone penetration tests (gCPTs), and 82 box cores (BC).
News
May 19, 2025
Sable Offshore has restarted production at the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU), offshore California, marking a major milestone for the development once owned by ExxonMobil. The Santa Ynez Unit was previously shut down in May 2015 after facing regulatory hurdles and a pipeline leak.
Article
April 2025
Big changes may be headed for hydrocarbon projects
News
May 12, 2025
Equinor ASA got no new signals that the Trump administration would reconsider the halt imposed on the Empire Wind project when its CEO met with a top White House official last week. Now the company must decide whether it will kill the project.
News
May 02, 2025
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito issued a statement on Friday in support of the House Natural Resources Committee reconciliation package. "Chairman Westerman’s bill is a game-changer for offshore energy," Milito said.
News
May 01, 2025
Shell Offshore Inc. and Shell Pipeline Company (SPLC), subsidiaries of Shell plc (Shell), have completed the previously announced agreement to increase their stake in the Ursa platform in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico from 45.39% to 61.35%.
News
April 30, 2025
EnerMech has secured a significant contract from LLOG Exploration Co. for pre-commissioning services at the Salamanca Platform in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico. The award follows a previous contract in for topside pre-commissioning services which EnerMech secured in 2024.
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April 21, 2025
Chevron and TotalEnergies have launched production at the Ballymore project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America, a tieback expected to deliver up to 75,000 barrels per day. The field connects to the Blind Faith platform and marks Chevron’s first development in the Norphlet trend.
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April 18, 2025
The National Ocean Industries Association issued a statement after U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the next steps in a new offshore oil and gas leasing program.
News
April 14, 2025
bp today announced an oil discovery at the Far South prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico. This discovery underscores bp's renewed focus on upstream exploration, part of its strategy reset announced in February 2025. Chevron co-owns the Far South prospect with 42.5% interest.
News
April 08, 2025
Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, today announced the start of production at Dover, the second subsea tieback connecting new wells to the existing infrastructure of the Shell-operated Appomattox production hub in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico.
