Bruce Beaubouef，执行编辑  

过去 12 个月，墨西哥湾新油气发现的淡季，只有两处公开宣布，还有可能发现第三处。其中一处位于墨西哥近海，该地区通常不包含在Offshore每年的美国墨西哥湾深水发现调查中。这与 2023 年墨西哥湾深水区发现的八个新发现形成鲜明对比，但与前一年报告的三个深水发现持平。 

这些数字可以看作是大幅下降，或者更符合历史趋势，具体取决于比较年份。例如，如果回顾大约 20 年前的数字，2004 年墨西哥湾深水区宣布了 12 次发现。该数字与 2024 年宣布的发现数量形成鲜明对比。但如果看看第二年（2005 年），记录的发现有 9 次，这个数字与行业在 2023 年宣布的数字（8 次发现）更一致。

Bruce Beaubouef, Managing Editor  

The past twelve months have been a lean time for new oil and gas discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, with only two publicly announced and a possible third. And one of those was offshore Mexico, an area not typically included in Offshore’s annual US Gulf of Mexico deepwater discovery survey. This contrasts significantly with the eight new discoveries in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico in 2023 but equals the three deepwater discoveries reported the year before. 

These numbers can be seen as a significant decline – or more in line with historical trends, depending on the comparison year. For example, if one reviews the numbers seen roughly 20 years ago, there were 12 discoveries announced in the deepwater GoM in 2004. That number contrasts starkly with the number of discoveries announced in 2024. But if one looks at the following year (2005), there were nine recorded discoveries – a number more in line with the number announced by industry in 2023 (eight discoveries).