BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform
Project Details and Timeline BP’s announcement marks a milestone in the Gulf of Mexico, a region long known for deepwater oil riches. The Tiber-Guadalupe platform will be located roughly 300 miles southwest of New Orleans, at water depths over 6,000 feet bignewsnetwork.com spglobal.com. BP originally discovered the Tiber field in 2009 and the Guadalupe field in 2014; combining them with six new wells (Tiber) and two tie-back wells (Guadalupe) gives the hub its 80,000 bpd capacity bignewsnetwork.com oilprice.com. First oil is targeted for 2030, after a multi-year construction and commissioning phase. According to BP, the project is fully funded within its