Texas
Houston is home to bp’s US headquarters and nearly 4,000 employees, our largest employee base in the world.
Operating in Texas’s Permian, Haynesville, and Eagle Ford Basins, our onshore oil and gas business bpx grew production by 13% year-on-year in 2023. bpx is also driving toward a 30-40% increase in production by 2025 compared to 2022.
Based in Houston, our Gulf of Mexico business operates five production platforms: Atlantis, Na Kika, Thunder Horse, Mad Dog and Argos. We’re building capacity to produce above 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).
Brought online in 2023, Argos is a new semi-submersible floating production platform and the centerpiece of bp’s $9 billion Mad Dog 2 project. Argos provides an additional source of crude supply at a time of heightened concerns about energy security and affordability.
In July 2024, we took a final investment decision on the Kaskida project, which will be our sixth operated hub in the region and feature a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
Our Remote Collaboration Center provides around-the-clock support for deepwater well operations in the Gulf of Mexico. As well, our Center for High-Performance Computing in Houston is one of the world’s largest supercomputers for commercial research.
bp’s marketing and trading business, which has a major hub in Houston, buys and sells 14.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day – making it one of the largest marketers of natural gas in North America. bp’s shipping fleet features some of the most advanced tanker designs in the industry. bp vessels have some of the latest, most fuel-efficient hull forms, engines, cargo management technology and operational systems.
bp’s shipping fleet features some of the most advanced tanker designs in the industry. bp vessels have some of the latest, most fuel-efficient hull forms, engines, cargo management technology and operational systems.
bp’s Archaea Energy – the largest renewable natural gas (RNG) producer in the US – is headquartered in Houston. Archaea, independently and through its joint ventures, operates 50 sites with a presence in 32 states.
bp’s wind energy business is also based in Houston, where the Remote Operations Center centrally monitors all nine bp-operated wind farms across six states – 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In September 2023, construction began on our 187-megawatt dc Peacock Solar project north of Corpus Christi in San Patricio County. Expected to come online in the fourth quarter of 2024, Peacock has already generated over 300 jobs during peak construction and is projected to provide more than $25 million in tax revenue over the first 25 years of the project’s life.
bp pulse, our electric vehicle (EV) charging business, has invested in Texas’s public EV charging network with the first bp pulse-branded Gigahub in the US opening at our bp America headquarters in Houston in April 2024.
bp pulse was also selected to design and deploy EV charging infrastructure to support Harris County’s fleet of EVs.