Mississippi Canyon

... several topsides components during a pre-production inspection March 27, 2018. Royal Dutch Shell plc, 79% owner and its partner, Nexen Petroleum Offshore U.S. A. Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC Ltd, will operate the platform about 80 miles off Louisiana's coast in the Mississippi Canyon.

As Shell finishes construction on its Appomattox Semi-Submersible Platform hull, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement engineers and inspectors signed off on several topsides components during a pre-production inspection March 27, 2018. Royal Dutch Shell plc, 79 percent owner and its ...

The multi-phase pump station is optimised for the high gas content at the Who Dat field which lies in the Mississippi Canyon blocks of the Gulf of Mexico, in a water depth of roughly 945 metres, and started production in 2011. The second award announced on Monday saw TechnipFMC awarded a contract ...

Vito's sub-salt discovery well was drilled in 2009 in Mississippi Canyon Block 984 in 4038 feet of water. The Miocene-age field is estimated to hold more than 300 million barrels of resource. No approved development plan yet appears in the US Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement's database, ...

Statoil has taken over a pair of Gulf of Mexico blocks and agreed to purchase the ATP Titan production facility out of last year's liquidation of Bennu Oil & Gas, the successor to ATP Oil & Gas. The Norwegian operator agreed to a purchase price of $500,000 for a 100% stake in Mississippi Canyon blocks 941 ...

Yesterday's Interior Department sale of Gulf of Mexico oil-and-gas leases drew modest action, with companies offering roughly $125 million in winning bids (and $139 million in total bids). The chart below shows the companies that submitted the highest total winning offers in Lease Sale 250 and how many blocs they ...

Also, much closer to shore, bidding in the Mississippi Canyon area was spirited, again with a number of multi-million dollar bids which included the sale's highest offer of ... Mississippi Canyon, offshore eastern Louisiana, houses several prominent fields such as BP's Thunder Horse and Hess' Tubular Bells.

The highest bid, for about $7.07 million, was by Total E&P USA Inc. for Mississippi Canyon Block NH16-10. The top 10 companies in order, based on total number of high bids submitted, were BP Exploration & Production Inc., 27 bids for $20.068 million; Chevron U.S.A. Inc., 24, $29.45 million; Shell ...

Its highest bid, $4,240,226, was for the ultra-deepwater Mississippi Canyon block 740. Shell Offshore Inc. submitted 16 high bids totaling $22,931,808. Its highest bid, $6,501,988, was for the deepwater Alaminos Canyon block 259. TOTAL E&P USA Inc. submitted nine high bids totaling $15,106,525. Its and ...

Elsewhere, Stone Energy Corp. has reported drilling success at the deepwater Mt. Providence development well in Mississippi Canyon block 28. Stone generated the prospect and owns a 100% working interest in the well. The Mt. Providence well (the MC 28 #4 well) encountered about 153 net ft (47 m) of ...

Its fields include Ship Shoal 349 Field (Mahogany), Fairway Field, Viosca Knoll 783 Field (Viosca Knoll 783 (Tahoe) and Viosca Knoll 784 (SE Tahoe)), Mississippi Canyon 782 Field (Dantzler), Mississippi Canyon 698 Field (Big Bend), Mississippi Canyon 243 Field (Matterhorn), Ewing Bank 910, Brazos ...

Deployed in the Mississippi Canyon to enhance formation pressure testing and sampling, the service collected and analyzed six samples downhole in real time. This was an industry first for the transmission of detailed in situ fluid properties, saving the operator from waiting for two to three months to receive ...

An investigation has started into an oil leak from a subsea pipeline near US operator LLOG's Delta House facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak was discovered last week after a sheen was seen on the surface of the water and reported to the National Response Centre, says the Bureau of Safety and ...

The Claiborne Discovery in Mississippi Canyon 794 is located in 1,500 feet (457 meters) of water and was drilled to a total depth of 24,000 ft (7315 m). Drilling targeted multiple sub-salt, oil-bearing Miocene sands. The discovery well was successfully appraised with a second well in late 2016. Both wells ...

The LaFemme prospect in Mississippi Canyon 427 is in 5800ft water depth and was drilled to a total depth of 13,000ft targeting multiple Upper Miocene reservoirs. The discovery well was drilled by LLOG as operator in mid-2016 and encountered over 175ft of net oil pay and was successfully appraised by a ...

The Rampart Deep well (MC 116 #1) is in Mississippi Canyon Block 116, about 8.5mi south of the Pompano field, at 2600m water depth. The well is being drilled with the Transocean Deepwater Asgard drillship. Stones says 130ft (net) of liquids-rich natural gas pay in three primary zones. According to DGE ...

Chevron, which made the highest sum (15) of high bids at a total of $27.9 million, won a total of 15 blocks, including: Garden Banks 978; Alaminos Canyon Blocks 647, 770, 814, 858, 860, and 862; Keathley Canyon Blocks 53, 97, 213, 256, and 257; Mississippi Canyon 35; and Green Canyon Blocks 508 ...