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According to a report in China Chemical Industry News dated December 16, 2025, BP recently announced that the expansion project of its Atlantis Oil Field’s drilling facility No. 1, located in the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, came online about two months earlier than scheduled. This project is BP’s seventh major upstream project launched in 2025, and it is expected to bring a peak production of around 15,000 oil equivalents per day to the field. This expansion uses two subsea reconnection wells to connect to the existing Atlantis platform. BP said that the early commissioning was made possible by using existing underwater inventory equipment, more efficient drilling and completion operations, as well as a simplified offshore construction plan. This project is one of a series of initiatives undertaken by BP to achieve its strategic goals in the Gulf of Mexico. The company’s long-term goals include increasing production in the United States to around 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2030, and raising capacity in the Gulf of Mexico to over 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the end of this decade. In August this year, BP launched the Argos platform southwest extension project. In addition, the company plans to complete the expansion of Atlantis’ main facilities by 2027, in order to further increase production by making use of the existing infrastructure.