While working toward first injections at a carbon dioxide storage site to serve Freeport LNG, Houston-based Talos Energy Inc. said it has begun flowing production from two deepwater wells in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

One year after discovering hydrocarbons, the Lime Rock and Venice wells were “brought safely online in late December 2023,”  management said. The independent had planned to bring the two wells online early this year. Talos holds a 60% working interest in both discoveries, which are near the company’s Ram Powell platform, where production is flowing via subsea tiebacks.

“With these production additions, the Ram Powell facility is expected to achieve the highest combined sustainable production rate since approximately 15 years ago,” CEO Timothy S....