SLB's Role in the Expansion of bp's Thunder Horse Oil Field

Energydigital · Jun 10, 2026 · 661 words · By James Darley

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The article discusses bp's use of SLB OneSubsea's standardized subsea boosting technology to maintain production at the Thunder Horse oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. It notes that this approach is being mirrored at other developments like Kaskida and Tiber to reduce engineering complexity and improve efficiency.

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SLB's Role in the Expansion of bp's Thunder Horse Oil Field The Thunder Horse oil field, located 150 miles southeast of New Orleans in the heart of the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the largest deepwater oil fields ever discovered.

Why it matters

It was first discovered in 1999 by bp and has been operated by the company ever since.

Common ground

It is thought that more than one billion barrels of oil lay beneath the waves at Thunder Horse – enough to last well into the 2030s.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The Thunder Horse oil field, located 150 miles southeast of New Orleans in the heart of the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the largest deepwater oil fields ever discovered.”

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Wikipedia and BP's official ports directory both confirm the location (150 miles southeast of New Orleans) and its status as a large deepwater field.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thunder Horse PDQ is a BP plc and ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse Oil Field (Block 778/822), in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Horse_PDQ

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thunder is the stage name for the horse who is the official live animal mascot for the Denver Broncos football team. Thunder shares mascot duties with Miles, a human who wears a horse head mask atop a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_(mascot)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thunder Horse oil field is a large offshore deepwater oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, around 150 miles (240 km) southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Large new oil discoveries within it were announc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Horse_Oil_Field

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Claim 2: “In March 2026, SLB OneSubsea secured an EPC contract from PTTEP Sabah Oil, a subsidiary of PTT Exploration”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the claim regarding a March 2026 contract with PTTEP Sabah Oil.

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Claim 3: “It was expanded to the north and south in 2016 and 2018”

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The provided evidence for this claim contains irrelevant information about hockey teams and horses; no evidence regarding the 2016 and 2018 expansions was found in the provided text.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Horse Lake Thunder is a defunct men's senior ice hockey team that played in the North Peace Hockey League (NPHL).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_Lake_Thunder

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Night of Thunder (foaled 12 March 2011) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and breeding stallion. In May 2014, he won the 2000 Guineas. He failed to win again as a three-year-old…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_Thunder_(horse)

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Claim 4: “It was first discovered in 1999 by bp and has been operated by the company ever since.”

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Multiple independent web sources and BP's own reports confirm the field was discovered in 1999 by bp.

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Claim 5: “SLB OneSubsea is a joint venture involving SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea7.”

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The official OneSubsea 'About' page and other web sources explicitly state that OneSubsea is a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7.

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web search NEUTRAL — OneSubsea is a SLB company, headquartered in Oslo, Norway and Houston, Texas, United States. The company is a subsea supplier for the subsea oil and gas market.In July 2015, Subsea 7 and OneSubsea ent…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneSubsea

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web search NEUTRAL — SLB OneSubsea combined the legacy subsea businesses of SLB and Aker Solutions, and we are now a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7.
https://www.onesubsea.slb.com/about

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web search NEUTRAL — OneSubsea combines SLB and Aker Solutions’ subsea businesses into one subsea production and processing technology portfolio. OneSubsea will have access to reservoir and digital domain expertise, pore-…
https://www.hartenergy.com/exclusives/slb-aker-solutions-sub…

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Claim 6: “The field was eventually brought on stream in June 2008”

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While the field exists, the provided evidence for this specific claim consists of irrelevant search results about names and mascots; no source in the provided evidence confirms the June 2008 start date.

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Claim 7: “The EPC contract follows recent subsea boosting contract awards for bp's Kaskida and Tiber developments”

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Multiple sources state that the Thunder Horse contract follows previous subsea boosting awards for the Kaskida and Tiber developments.

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web search NEUTRAL — SLB OneSubsea has secured a subsea boosting contract for bp's Thunder Horse development, expanding the operator's use of standardized subsea processing technology across its deepwater Gulf of America …
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2026/6/8/bp-awards-slb-onesubs…

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web search NEUTRAL — SLB OneSubsea has won a bp subsea boosting contract for the Thunder Horse oil and gas field, the firm's third deepwater oil project in the Gulf of Mexico.
https://energydigital.com/news/slbs-role-in-the-expansion-of…

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web search NEUTRAL — BP Awards Thunder Horse Subsea Boosting Contract to SLB OneSubsea.The Thunder Horse award does not stand alone. It follows two earlier subsea boosting contracts that bp placed with SLB OneSubsea for t…
https://energiesmedia.com/bp-awards-slb-thunder-horse-contra…

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Claim 8: “SLB's OneSubsea joint venture has been awarded a contract by bp to provide a subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse project.”

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Three independent web search results confirm that SLB OneSubsea was awarded a contract by bp for a subsea boosting system for Thunder Horse.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... SLB OneSubsea has been awarded a contract by bp to deliver a subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse development in the Gulf of America ...
https://www.slb.com/newsroom/press-release/2026/pr-2026-0608…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 10, 2026 ... SLB's OneSubsea joint venture has been awarded a contract by bp to provide a subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse project. The agreement ...
https://energydigital.com/news/slbs-role-in-the-expansion-of…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... SLB announced that its OneSubsea joint venture has been awarded a contract by BP ... subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse project ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/slb-onesub…

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Claim 9: “Pumping was originally planned to commence in 2005, but the project's semi-submersible production platform was almost irreparably damaged by Hurricane Dennis in July of that year”

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Web search results confirm that the semi-submersible platform was damaged by Hurricane Dennis in July 2005, specifically mentioning ballast tank flooding.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hurricane Dennis was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that briefly held the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever to form before August. Dennis was the fourth named storm of the re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dennis

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