据普氏能源资讯2019年8月2日休斯顿报道，在美国墨西哥湾石油开采活动相对较少的几年以后，雪佛龙公司周五表示该公司将再次关注墨西哥湾潜在的新的大型深水开发项目。
自2015年以来，雪佛龙公司主要专注于国内业务，致力于在位于西德克萨斯州和新墨西哥州的二叠纪盆地进行快速回报的陆上作业。雪佛龙公司如今似乎准备再次投资于已发现的投产时间更长的油田。
雪佛龙公司负责上游业务的执行副总裁约翰逊在公司第二季度财报电话会议上说，至少有一个深水项目需要新的技术，但这个项目现进展良好，应该很快就能准备好接受项目批准。
约翰逊说，其他项目正在进行评估和评价，甚至有一些新建开发项目正在考虑中。
自从美国油价在2014年年初徘徊于100美元/桶水平下跌到年末近50美元/桶水平导致了石油工业低迷以后，雪佛龙公司在此期间专注于交付周期更短、回报更快的项目。
李峻 编译自 Platts
原文如下：
Chevron mulls array of Gulf of Mexico deepwater development projects
After a few years of relatively light activity in the US Gulf of Mexico, Chevron said Friday it was again looking at potential large new deepwater developments.
The company, which since 2015 has chiefly focused in the domestic arena on its quicker-return Permian Basin onshore operation in West Texas and New Mexico, appears ready to invest again in longer lead-time fields that had been discovered since then, or even before then.
At least one of those projects needs new technology, but that is progressing well and should be ready soon for project sanctions, Jay Johnson, Chevron's executive vice president for upstream, said during the company's second-quarter earnings conference call.
Other projects are being appraised and evaluated, and there are even some brownfield developments being mulled, Johnson said.
During the industry downturn that began in late 2014 from US oil prices that had dropped near the $50/b level after hovering in the low $100s/ earlier that year, the company focused on shorter lead-time projects with a faster payback.
