Woodside, Chevron big winners at auction


High offer: A scene at a Chevron petrol station in Novato, California. The firm made bids on 22 tracts at the recent US government sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. — AFP

NEW YORK: BP, Woodside Energy and Chevron were the top winners at the US government’s first sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico since 2023.

The auction, which ended with US$279.4mil in high bids, was the first of 30 mandated by US president Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending bill, which he signed into law in July.

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