Highlights Major made offers for nearly 100 offshore Texas blocks BP bulking up in Norphlet play but also remote Lloyd Ridge Small players active on shallow-water Continental Shelf ExxonMobil looks set to capture a slew of shallow-water blocks along the Texas coast in US Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 257, according to information posted early Nov. 17 by sale sponsor US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The major, which hasn’t been prominent in the deepwater US Gulf in recent years and sold off most of its shallow-water leases years ago, made preliminary offers for nearly 100 blocks offshore the High Island area south of Beaumont, Texas, and also the Galveston and Brazos areas further south along the lower Texas Coast, BOEM’s maps and other materials released ahead of the auction showed. The traditional US Gulf players […]