Exxon Launches Legal Battle to Hang on to Giant Oil Field in US Gulf

摘要

Supermajor Exxon Mobil has launched a legal battle against a federal government agency in an effort to retain the right to develop what could be one of the biggest oil discoveries ever made in the US Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit filed last week describes the Exxon-operated Julia field as holding "billions of barrels of oil" across five blocks in the Walker Ridge area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.