HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil producers on Monday shut offshore production and pulled workers off platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as the 27th named storm of the season strengthened into a hurricane and took aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast. BP , Chevron and Equinor...
Gulf Coast Western serves as the Managing Venturer of Oil and Gas General Partnerships, otherwise known as Joint Ventures, for the exploration, development and
Inbound and outbound traffic has ceased among numerous ports along Florida’s Gulf Coast, including Port Tampa Bay, an important entrepot. Tampa is in the region that could see a peak storm surge of 5-8 feet (1.5-2.4 meters), as shown in the following map. Source: Nati...
Thibodaux DP, Bourgeois RM, Loeppke RR, et al. Medical evacuations from oil rigs off the Gulf Coast of the United States from 2008 to 2012: reasons and cost implications. J Occup Environ Med 2014;56:681-5.Thibodaux DP, Bourgeois RM, Loeppke RR, Konicki DL, Hymel PA, Dreger M (...
"The Coast Guard would likely seek enforcement action," says Lieutenant Katie Braynard. She would not comment more specifically. Aging Infrastructure and Poor Regulation American oil infrastructure is old. On this map, each dot represents a still-standing platform or rig. The lighter the dot, ...
The Gulf of Mexico features a wide continental shelf, specifically around Florida and the Yucatán Peninsula. Because thiscontinental shelfis easily accessible, the Gulf of Mexico is exploited for oil with offshore oil drilling rigs centered in the Bay of Campeche and the western Gulf region. Eigh...
Normally, the idea of a shipwreck is cause for alarm. But when intentionally sunk, decommissioned ships and other structures (including aircraft carriers, oil rigs and even subway cars) serve as habitats for all kinds of marine life. In time, they become true underwater reefs and functioning ...
the oil and gas industry rapidly expanded to encompass over 5.3 million hectares in U.S. waters leaving the northern GoM littered with infrastructure consisting of more than 10,000 platforms and active rigs, 68,000 kilometers of active and inactive pipelines, and 27,000 abandoned wells. In the...
Sperm whales overlap strongly with shipping lanes between New Orleans and Houston, industrial seismic activities, and deepwater oil/gas rigs (Azzara 2012). They were the only large whales to be hunted in the Gulf (although apparently not into the twentieth century), and their population ...
1. Historical oil production 2. One view of the future of exploration 3. EUR ranges I will limit my comments to oil production (not gas production). All production data is from BSEE/BOEM. The play outlines on the map are my best estimates. I will be using the BSEE definition of deep...