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Video Update: Topping Off Anadarko’s Lucius Production Platform

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Mark Green
Posted June 11, 2014

Last summer we published this post on the construction of Anadarko Petroleum’s Lucius spar that would support the company’s newest Gulf of Mexico production platform. A few months later we added this one, featuring three video clips of the spar being towed to sea and positioned in the Gulf, about 275 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas.

Now check out the new video below, showing Lucius’ 10,000-ton topsides – the production decks, living quarters and other features – being installed recently on the truss spar as it floats in approximately 5,300 feet of water.

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Gulf Lease Auction Points to Our Offshore Potential

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Mark Green
Posted March 19, 2014

This week’s central Gulf of Mexico lease auction, which saw oil and natural gas companies pledge more than $850 million in winning amounts, certainly helps support the United States’ status as an energy superpower. Developing more of our own oil and natural gas – and this week’s auction is a big step toward production – makes our country more energy secure, creates jobs and boosts the U.S. in global energy marketplace.

The potential benefits from future energy production from this week’s auctioned leases – jobs, economic growth and revenue for government – also suggest a couple of “what ifs”: What if the federal government included the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in its next five-year leasing plan, the first step toward development in those areas? What if the U.S. opened more of the eastern Gulf to exploration and development?

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The New York Times is Wrong – Again, and Again, and Again

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Kyle Isakower
Posted August 27, 2012

Ridiculing a New York Times editorial blog is like shooting unusually large fish in a barrel, but this one from last Friday is so fantastical and extreme that a commitment to an honest debate on energy compels me to fire away. And we don’t have to go far to start the fact check, as they lead with:

"The simple truth, as President Obama has recognized, is that a country that holds less than 3 percent of the world’s reserves but consumes more than 20 percent of the world’s supply cannot drill its way to energy independence."

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