Oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is poised to set new records in the imminent future. Oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is poised to set new records in the imminent future. That’s what energy research and business intelligence company Rystad Energy said in a statement posted on its website recently. Rystad forecasts that 2019 oil output from the region will average 1.95 million barrels per day (bpd), with some months “potentially touching the two million bpd ceiling”. GoM oil production averaged 1.28 million bpd in 2013 and steadily rose to average a record high of 1.79 million bpd in 2018, Rystad highlighted. “With earlier than planned production, Appomattox will be a key growth contributor to help push U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil production toward a new record high before year-end,” Joachim Milling Gregersen, an analyst on Rystad Energy’s upstream team, said in a […]