• Photo from Chevron Corp.
    Chevron Blind Faith semibusmersible platform
    April 21, 2025
    Chevron has started producing oil and natural gas from the Ballymore subsea tieback in the deepwater Mississippi Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico.

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