Anadarko’s Heidelberg Spar has made the 400 mile trip from Ingleside, Texas to its new home at the Green Canyon 859 block in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, where it has now been upended.
The Heidelberg is an exact replica of Anadarko’s Lucius facility, which began production in January 2015 in the Gulf of Mexico’s Keathley Canyon area. The two facilities are Anadarko’s most technically advanced truss spars to date, with 80,000 barrels per day capacity. First oil from the Heidelberg Spar is expected in the 2nd quarter of 2016.
Both spars were constructed at Technip’s fabrication yard in Pori Finland.
The Trump administration will hold the government's first sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico since 2023 on Wednesday, a key test of industry appetite for offshore acreage at a time when the United States is seeking to unleash more domestic fossil fuel production.
Beacon Offshore Energy LLC, an oil explorer backed by Blackstone Inc., is betting on a drilling renaissance in the Gulf of Mexico as it starts up some of the most productive wells in the US using new technology to pump once-impossible-to-reach crude.
BP has reached a final investment decision on the Tiber-Guadalupe project in the Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), approving its second new production platform in less than two years...
September 29, 2025
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