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Table of Contents — continued Page APPENDICES ..........................................................................................................................................119 Appendix A. Announced Deepwater Discoveries (Sorted by Project Name). .................................119 Appendix B. Announced Deepwater Discoveries (Sorted by Discovery Date). ..............................125 Appendix C. Chronological Listing of GOM Lease Sales by Sale Location and Sale Date. ...........131 Appendix D. Deepwater Studies Program........................................................................................133 Appendix E. Companies Defined as Majors in this Report. ............................................................135 Appendix F. Number of Deepwater Production Facilities Installed Each Year (including Plans through 2006)...................................................................................139 Appendix G. Subsea Completions....................................................................................................140 Appendix H. Average Annual GOM Oil and Gas Production. ........................................................149 iv
Figures Page Figure 1. The Gulf of Mexico OCS is divided into Western, Central, and Eastern Planning Areas. Water-depth categories used in this report are shown in addition to shaded Deep Water Royalty Relief Act zones.................................................................................... 4 Figure 2. Progressive deepwater 3-D seismic permit coverage. ............................................................ 7 Figure 3. Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 3-D seismic permit coverage from 1992 to 2003........................ 9 Figure 4. Pre-stack depth migration coverage from various industry sources. .................................... 10 Figure 5. Stratigraphic chart highlighting new play potential.............................................................. 11 Figure 6. Frontier plays in the deepwater GOM. ................................................................................. 11 Figure 7. Location of known gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico. ...................................................... 14 Figure 8. Gas hydrates on the seafloor in Green Canyon Block 185 (photo courtesy of GERG/Texas A&M University)............................................................. 15 Figure 9. Deepwater leases issued in the Gulf of Mexico.................................................................... 16 Figure 10. Active leases in the Gulf of Mexico. .................................................................................... 18 Figure 11. Total active leases by water depth. ....................................................................................... 19 Figure 12. Environmental and deepwater administrative features. ........................................................ 20 Figure 13. Grid EA status....................................................................................................................... 22 Figure 14. ROV surveys including known chemosynthetic communities. ............................................ 24 Figure 15. Loop and eddy currents in the Gulf of Mexico (image courtesy of Horizon Marine, Inc.). ........................................................................... 25 Figure 16. Deepwater discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico. ..................................................................... 27 Figure 17. Ownership of deepwater discoveries (includes industry-announced discoveries)................ 29 Figure 18. Estimated volumes of 80 proved deepwater fields. .............................................................. 30 Figure 19. Onshore service bases for existing deepwater structures...................................................... 31 Figure 20. Onshore service bases for pending deepwater plans............................................................. 32 Figure 21. Current, potential, and future hub facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. ..................................... 33 Figure 22. Oil and gas pipelines with diameters greater than or equal to 20 inches. ............................. 35 Figure 23. Deepwater oil and gas pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico........................................................ 36 Figure 24. Number of leases issued each year, subdivided by DWRRA water-depth categories.......... 38 Figure 25a. Number of leases bid on for each deepwater interval........................................................... 39 Figure 25b. Total bid amounts in deepwater intervals. ............................................................................ 39 Figure 25c. Average bid amount per block in deepwater intervals.......................................................... 39 Figure 26. Rejected shallow- and deepwater Gulf of Mexico bids. ....................................................... 40 Figure 27. Ownership of deepwater leases............................................................................................. 43 Figure 28. Anticipated lease expirations in the Gulf of Mexico. ........................................................... 45 Figure 29. The Deepwater Horizon, a dynamically positioned, semisubmersible drilling unit (photo courtesy of Transocean). ........................................................................................... 48 v
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Page 5: Table of Contents Page PREFACE.....
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Page 11: Tables Page Table 1 List of Deepwat
Page 15 and 16: INTRODUCTION The deepwater Gulf of
Page 17 and 18: BACKGROUND DEFINITIONS The GOM Oute
Page 19 and 20: EXPANDING FRONTIER When the origina
Page 21 and 22: 1992 - 1993 Louisiana Mississippi A
Page 23 and 24: 1992 - 2003 Texas Louisiana Mississ
Page 25 and 26: fffffffffffffffff 1500 ft Quaternar
Page 27 and 28: In addition to the traditional oil
Page 29 and 30: 15 Figure 8. Gas hydrates on the se
Page 33 and 34: 4,500 4,000 Number of Active Leases
Page 35 and 36: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITY The extensiv
Page 37 and 38: Operators submit a remotely operate
Page 39 and 40: 25 Figure 15. Loop and eddy current
Page 43 and 44: 29 Deepwater Discoveries $ #Y Texas
Page 45 and 46: 31 Texas ð PORT ARANSAS 1000 ft 15
Page 47 and 48: Louisiana Mississippi Alabama 33 Te
Page 49 and 50: Pipelines New pipelines Proposed pi
Page 51 and 52: LEASING Until the mid-1990's, leasi
Page 53 and 54: Number of Leases Bid On 600 500 400
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1992 - 1993 Louisiana Mississippi A
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2004 - 2005 (741 leases) Louisiana
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DRILLING AND DEVELOPMENT Deepwater
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49 Figure 30. The Discoverer Deep S
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51 Number of Wells Spudded 250 200
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120 > 7,500 ft 107 108 100 5,000 -
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180 160 Deepwater EP Deepwater DOCD
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340 626 390 472 472 456 393 475 590
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Year of First Production Table 4 De
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Year of First Production Table 4 De
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A predominant workhorse of the GOM
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3 Number Installed 2 1 0 2004 69 TL
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Flow lines to host platform Subsea
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140 131 120 100 78 Number of Wells
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RESERVES AND PRODUCTION The deepwat
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77 Million Barrels of Oil Equivalen
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18 16 14 12 10 8 Number of Fields 6
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81 Million Barrels of Oil Equivalen
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45,000 40,000 Million Barrels Oil E
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1992-1993 1994-1995 1996-1997 Lease
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S hallo w- wa ter GOM 11% Deepwater
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1,200,000 1,000,000 Total productio
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1,100,000 1,000,000 Subsea oil Tota
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900,000 800,000 Majors Nonmajors 70
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45,000 40,000 Max oil rate 1,000-1,
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4,000 3,500 Shallow water Deepwater
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Texas Auger Louisiana SS182 Troika
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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS This report
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2,500 Number of leases Average U.S.
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Number of Years 14 12 leas es in p
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data for this analysis include only
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80 2500 70 60 Number of leases dril
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4,500 4,000 3,500 Leases tested Lea
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• Nonmajor companies have made mo
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REFERENCES Bascle, B. J., L. D. Nix
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Project Name Area/Block Water Depth
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Sale Number Sale Location Sale Date
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Completed Studies [MMS Study Number
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Group Name Company Name MMS Number
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Group Name Company Name MMS Number
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Appendix G. Subsea Completions. Are
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Area Block API Number Operator Comp
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Area Block API Number Operator 144
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Year Shallowwater Oil (MBOPD) Deepw
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