By year-end 2023, one of seven barrels of crude oil produced in the U.S. offshore Gulf of Mexico (GoM) will derive from the nine fields coming online in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its June "Short-Term Energy Outlook." Those new fields will also account for 5 of GoM's natural gas production. Of those nine, eight will produce oil and gas and one will produce oil only. Three large-development fields are expected to begin production in 2022: bp Pic's Argo (capacity of 140,000 boe/d) and Murphy Oil Corp.'s King's Quay (102,000 boe/d) in the Green Canyon; and Shell Pic and Statoil's Vito (100,000 boe/d) in the Mississippi Canyon.
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