BP Green Lights 6th Production Hub in Gulf of Mexico

The new hub features a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day from six wells in the first phase. Reuters
The new hub features a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day from six wells in the first phase. Reuters
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BP Green Lights 6th Production Hub in Gulf of Mexico

The new hub features a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day from six wells in the first phase. Reuters
The new hub features a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day from six wells in the first phase. Reuters

BP said on Tuesday it has given the go-ahead for the sixth operated hub, Kaskida, in the US Gulf of Mexico, with oil production slated to start in 2029.
The new hub features a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day from six wells in the first phase, BP said.
The London-listed company discovered the Kaskida field in 2006 and last year revived plans to develop it.
The company said it plans to leverage its existing platform and subsea equipment designs that can be replicated in future projects to drive cost efficiencies across Kaskida's construction, commissioning and operations.
BP's US Gulf of Mexico output averaged 300,000 barrels of oil and gas per day (bpd) in 2023 and last year the company said it was targeting 400,000 bpd by 2030, Reuters reported.
The British energy major is also considering a 2025 financial greenlight decision for its Tiber offshore oil project in the US Gulf of Mexico.
Kaskida, Tiber, and nearby discoveries combined have an estimated 10 billion barrels of discovered resources in place.
Separately, BP on Tuesday reported a second-quarter profit of $2.76 billion, beating expectations, and increased its dividend.



IMF Approves Release of $820 Million for Egypt, Calls for More Reforms

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen ahead of the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, US, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen ahead of the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, US, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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IMF Approves Release of $820 Million for Egypt, Calls for More Reforms

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen ahead of the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, US, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen ahead of the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, US, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

The International Monetary Fund said on Monday it had completed a review allowing Egypt to draw $820 million, saying efforts to restore macroeconomic stability had started to yield results but urging more progress on reining in state-owned enterprises.

The review is the third under Egypt's latest 46-month IMF loan program, which was approved in 2022 and expanded to $8 billion this year following an economic crisis marked by high inflation and severe foreign currency shortages.

Egypt says it has shifted to a flexible exchange rate regime, a policy the IMF said on Monday remains “a cornerstone of the authorities' program.”

“Inflationary pressures are gradually abating, foreign exchange shortages have been eliminated, and fiscal targets (including related to spending by large infrastructure projects) were met,” an IMF statement said, according to Reuters.

“While there has been progress on some critical structural reforms, greater efforts are needed to implement the State Ownership Policy (SOP),” it added.

The Fund called on Egypt to accelerate a program of divestment of state-owned enterprises and carry out reforms to prevent them from using unfair competitive practices.

It also said Egypt, where falling natural gas production has contributed to daily power cuts since last year, needed to contain fiscal risks from the energy sector.

“Restoring energy prices to their cost recovery levels, including retail fuel prices by December 2025, is essential to supporting the smooth provision of energy to the population and reducing imbalances in the sector,” the IMF quoted its Deputy Managing Director Antoinette M. Sayeh as saying.

Egypt raised domestic fuel prices by up to 15% ahead of the IMF review, which had been postponed from July 10.