Offshore

Chevron Corp., Royal Dutch Shell plc, and TotalEnergies SE are taking to the skies with Canada’s GHGSat as part of a year-long research project to detect offshore methane (CH4) leaks by satellite. The three supermajors are supporting the project by allowing six of their offshore facilities to be observed, including ones in the North Sea…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico’s natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. One month after the midterm elections offered hope for change in the Mexican energy sector, some worrying signs have again begun to…

Delfin Midstream has filed another request with FERC for more time to build onshore metering, compression and pipeline facilities in Cameron Parish, LA, for its planned floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) export project offshore. Delfin wants until Sept. 28, 2022 to complete the onshore facilities. It is the company’s third extension request. If built, it…

A weaker weather pattern seen for the coming two weeks coupled with rising production to send natural gas futures prices sliding on Monday. The July Nymex gas futures contract settled at $3.191, off 2.4 cents from Friday’s close. August slipped 2.1 cents to $3.215. Spot gas prices were mostly lower too, with strong demand mainly…

The Department of Interior may have paused federal oil and natural gas leasing, but it is looking to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind capacity on nearly every U.S. coast by 2030. A competitive lease sale to kick things off is planned in the New York Bight, with other auctions eventually expected offshore the West…

Natural gas and oil opportunities in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) look to be expanding, with Tulsa-based Williams preparing to take advantage. The midstream giant, which already has substantial GOM infrastructure, recently clinched an agreement to gather and transport natural gas from the Shenandoah development underway in the deepwater. The agreement is with Beacon…

Offshore Guyana continues to prove fruitful for ExxonMobil and its partners, with the Irving, TX-based supermajor announcing another discovery in the Stabroek Block. The Longtail-3 well encountered 230 feet of net pay, including newly identified hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs below the original discovery intervals, according to ExxonMobil. “Longtail-3, combined with our recent discovery at Uaru-2, has the…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined Republican leaders in calling on the Biden administration to lift its temporary pause on federal oil and natural gas leasing after a Louisiana district court ordered the moratorium be lifted. Fourteen states in March challenged President Biden’s executive order (EO), which in January,…

Houston-based Talos Energy Inc. is diving into carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunities along the Gulf Coast and offshore with UK expert Storegga Geotechnologies Ltd.  Through the joint venture (JV), the partners plan to “source, evaluate and develop” CCS opportunities on the coast and in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) offshore Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and…