US EditionInterior Department promotes new 'commingling' policy to speed up offshore oil production
- The U.S. Interior Department implemented new guidelines for allowable oil drilling pressure differences in the Gulf of Mexico.
- President Trump's Energy Dominance Council seeks to cut regulations and boost oil output.
- These rules affect operators in the Wilcox formation allowing greater downhole commingling between multiple reservoirs.
- The guidelines increased the allowable pressure differential from 200 psi to 1500 psi.
- Interior expects the policy will boost regional oil output by 100,000 barrels daily over ten years.
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Washington, Apr 25 (EFE).- The United States anticipates that thanks to its new energy guidelines oil extractions in the Gulf of Mexico will experience an increase of 100,000 barrels per day, according to the Department of Interior in a statement and shared by President Donald Trump, this Friday on social networks. The Department of Interior indicated that new parameters could increase US crude production by 10% in the next decade thanks to a ch…
Trump Admin Tweaks Offshore Drilling Rules to Boost Production
The U.S. Interior Department has introduced changes to pressure difference requirements in offshore drilling in a bid to stimulate greater production from the Gulf. According to the department, the changes could add 10% to offshore U.S. oil production over the next decade, equal to some 100,000 barrels daily, by allowing greater pressure differences between reservoirs. “Results from a University of Texas study on commingling show that commingled…
US aims to boost offshore oil drilling by easing pressure rules
By Timothy Gardner
The United States plans to increase oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, recently renamed Gulf of America, by 10% (or 100,000 barrels per day) as part of a new policy advocated by the White House. Following a presidential decree to release US energy, the new strategy allows offshore oil drills ... This Washington article intends to increase oil production in the Gulf of America by 10% first appeared on Diplomatic Morocco.
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