Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2004: America's Expanding ... - OCS BBS
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PRODUCTION TRENDS<br />
Seismic acquisition, leasing, bid rejects, drilling, and discoveries—all stepped into deeper waters<br />
with time. The final piece in the puzzle, production, is no exception. Figure 59 illustrates the<br />
relative volume <strong>of</strong> production from each GOM block through time. Notice the large deepwater<br />
volumes that first appear in 1996 and 1997. More recent production continues to expand over a<br />
larger area and into deeper waters. Table 5 shows that the most prolific blocks (on a BOE basis) are<br />
currently in the deepwater GOM.<br />
Table 5<br />
Top 20 Producing Blocks for the Years 2001—2002<br />
Block Project Name Owner Water Depth (ft) Production (BOE)*<br />
MC 807 Mars Shell 2,933 136,568,699<br />
MC 809 Ursa Shell 3,800 93,241,872<br />
GC 200 Troika BP 2,679 67,655,971<br />
GB 426 Auger Shell 2,860 65,162,185<br />
VK 956 Ram Powell Shell 3,216 46,548,817<br />
GC 205 Genesis ChevronTexaco 2,590 46,305,567<br />
VK 786 Petronius ChevronTexaco 1,753 43,380,884<br />
VK 915 Marlin BP 3,236 40,218,070<br />
GB 260 Baldpate Amerada Hess 1,648 38,137,292<br />
AC 25 Hoover ExxonMobil 4,808 33,106,719<br />
ST 204 Unnamed El Paso 155 32,437,871<br />
GB 215 Conger Amerada Hess 1,500 28,898,766<br />
MC 687 Mensa Shell 5,280 27,248,719<br />
GI 116 Unnamed Anadarko 326 24,164,514<br />
MC 194 Cognac Shell 1,023 22,959,993<br />
GC 158 Brutus Shell 2,983 21,090,921<br />
ST 37 Unnamed ChevronTexaco 59 20,962,911<br />
MI 622 Unnamed BP 89 20,369,408<br />
VK 989 Pompano/Pompano II BP 1,290 19,584,629<br />
MC 899 Crosby Shell 4,259 17,819,211<br />
*cumulative production from January 2001 through December 2002<br />
Figure 60 illustrates the importance <strong>of</strong> the GOM to the Nation’s energy supply. The GOM supplies<br />
approximately 28 percent <strong>of</strong> the Nation’s domestic oil and 23 percent <strong>of</strong> the Nation’s domestic gas<br />
production. A significant and growing portion <strong>of</strong> these volumes comes from the deepwater.<br />
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