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An offshore oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Wednesday (Sept. 27) in the Gulf of Mexico’s (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) must proceed as originally planned with all 73 million acres on offer, following a preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The Department of the Interior’s…

A potentially active hurricane season could shut in a substantial portion of oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) this year, according to an analysis by Enverus Intelligence Research (EIR).  “Should a hurricane disrupt oil and gas production in the GOM, EIR’s mid-impact case estimates 40% of total GOM production would…

Reflecting a notable upswing in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and a decline in U.S. land drilling, the domestic rig count rose two units to 761 for the week ended Friday (Feb. 10), according to the latest tally from Baker Hughes Co. (BKR). Ten oil-directed rigs were added in the United States for the week,…

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) paused its search late Thursday for three Walter Oil & Gas Corp. platform workers and a pilot after a helicopter crashed 10 miles off the coast of Southwest Pass, LA, in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The USCG’s Eighth District, headquartered in New Orleans, conducted a search for about eight…

The U.S. natural gas rig count finished unchanged at 155 for the week ended Nov. 11, while gains in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and in the Permian Basin helped drive the combined domestic tally nine units higher to 779, according to updated numbers published Friday by Baker Hughes Co. (BKR). Oil-directed drilling accounted for…

International natural gas and oil market activity is accelerating, and North American service capacity is tightening, with pricing “moving up in both markets,” Halliburton Co. CEO Jeff Miller said Tuesday. Miller helmed a conference call with analysts to discuss third quarter results, noting the Houston-based oilfield services (OFS) giant is using the technology honed in…

Dragged lower by an upward swing in production, moderating weather and an ongoing curtailment of feed gas deliveries to the Freeport LNG facility, natural gas forward prices crumbled during the trading period from Sept. 15 to Sept. 21. Steep declines of more than 70 cents extended from the October contract through the winter season (November-March),…

President Biden is moving to reinstate the post-Macondo offshore safety rules enacted by the Obama administration, which were partly undone by the Trump administration. BP plc’s deepwater Macondo well explosion in 2010 killed 11 men, destroyed the Deep Horizon drilling rig and led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. An extensive investigation by…

Houston-based Talos Energy Inc., a major explorer in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), expects to garner “several favorable provisions” from the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which would benefit the upstream business and the low-carbon ventures underway, CEO Timothy S. Duncan said. The independent issued its 2Q2022 results earlier this month, followed by a conference…