Houston’s Shell Midstream Partners LP has acquired stakes in three of BP plc’s pipeline systems, two that carry crude oil and one for natural gas, to expand its reach in a discovery-heavy area of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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Tropical Storm Hermine Stalled in GOM; 10.2 Bcf Remains Shut-In
Tropical Storm Hermine — upgraded from Tropical Depression Nine on Wednesday afternoon — was nearly immobile about 395 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola, FL, but forecasters expected it to begin moving to the northeast on Thursday.
Federal Officials Investigating Fatal Accident at GOM Platform
Drilling activities at a project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico were halted Friday after a Nabors Industries Ltd. employee was killed, federal regulators said.
Nova Scotia Holds Out Hopes For European LNG Market
While the outlook for the North American liquefied natural gas (LNG) export business dims with every ratchet down in the price of oil and natural gas, sponsors of three proposed export terminals in Nova Scotia are convinced that when the turnaround comes, their straight shot across the Atlantic will give them an edge.
Central, Eastern Blocks in GOM Offered For Oil, Gas Development
Nearly 45 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) will be offered in March to producers for oil and natural gas leasing, federal officials said Thursday.
Tropical Activity On the Rise, But GOM Remains Quiet
There has been a flurry of tropical storm activity across the Atlantic and the Caribbean this week, but with less than 90 days remaining in the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, energy interests in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) remain unscathed, and the season has yet to produce a single hurricane.
North America Onshore Boosted by Egypt Sale, Says Apache CEO
Apache Corp. late Thursday pulled off what many analysts had not thought probable, selling a one-third operational stake in strife-torn Egypt for $3.1 billion in cash to China’s Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corp.
Western GOM Draws Few Bidders, Lower High Bids
The Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Lease Sale 233, which offered for bid 20.7 million acres offshore Texas, yielded fewer offers and lower total high bids than in the past, with 12 operators making 61 offers for 53 blocks that covered just more than 300,000 acres, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) officials said Wednesday.
Second FPSO Project in GOM for Natural Gas Moves Forward
Shell Offshore Inc. has awarded Paris-based Technip the contract to install a subsea natural gas pipeline structure in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in the Stones field in the Walker Ridge blocks that are part of the prospective Lower Tertiary Trend.
Pemex Reform Not Out of the Political Woods
Mexico’s federal government-dominated energy sector continues to be the focus of reform talk by the country’s presidential administration, with disclosures by the new CEO at Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) that he will form a new company within the state-operated oil and natural gas giant specifically to go after shale and deep water Gulf of Mexico (GOM) supplies outside of Mexico.