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Exxon Mobil beginning development of ultra-deepwater Julia oil field in Gulf of Mexico

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The field was discovered in 2007 under 7,087 feet (2,160 meters) of water and is now estimated to have nearly six billion barrels of resource in place, according to Exxon Mobil. Malo production facility operated by Chevron USA Inc.

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BP announces significant resource extension of Mad Dog Field in deepwater Gulf Of Mexico; total hydrocarbons estimated at up to 4B barrels of oil equivalent

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interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% Chevron Corporation announced the Moccasin discovery in the Lower Tertiary play on Keathley Canyon block 736. The prospect is operated by Chevron USA Inc., —Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. BP maintains a 60.5%

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The View From Here Today

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We’ve got a greenhouse gas-spewing Exxon-Mobil refinery just 5 miles from my house here in Torrance and 9 miles up Pacific Coast Highway sits the climate-changing Chevron refinery in El Segundo. I’ve been blogging on the environment since October of 2007. The fire is 38 miles away in La Canada-Flintridge.