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DEEPWATER

DEEPWATER GULF OF MEXICO

DISCOVERIES

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Field name

Location

Year of
discovery

Water
depth (ft)

Operator

MD (ft)

Allegheny South
Anduin
Anduin West
Aspen
Balboa
Boris
Brutus Ru
Caesar
Claymore
Clipper
Cottonwood
Crested Butte
Danny
Dawson Deep
Dawson Deep
Deimos
Devils Island
Droskhy
Durango
Entrada
Ewing Bank 1006
Ewing Bank 878

Green Canyon 298

Mississippi Canyon 755
Mississippi Canyon 754
Green Canyon 243
East Breaks 597
Green Canyon 282
Green Canyon 202
Green Canyon 683
Atwater Valley 140
Green Canyon 299
Garden Banks 244
Green Canyon 242
Garden Banks 506
Garden Banks 669
Garden Banks 625
Mississippi Canyon 806
Garden Banks 344
Green Canyon 244
Garden Banks 667
Garden Banks 782
Ewing Bank 1006
Ewing Bank 878

2005
2005
2008
2001
2001
2001
2002
2006
2006
2005
2001
2004
2007
2001
2004
2002
2002
2007
2001
2000
2003
2000

3,280
2,400
2,696
3,063
3,373
2,393
3,160
4,500
3,700
3,452
2,000
2,846
2,700
3,000
2,900
3,000
2,300
2,900
3,150
4,642
1,854
1,523

ENI
ATP
Newfield
Nexen
Anadarko
BHP
Shell
Anadarko
Anadarko
Pioneer
Petrobras
Nexen
Helix (ERT)
Kerr-McGee
Kerr-McGee
Shell
Helix (ERT)
Marathon
Kerr-McGee
Callon Petroleum
Walter
Walter

15,977
15,555
NA
24,815
9,350
7,159
18,055
29,721
24,803
18,352
23,730
24,395
NA
20,720
10,835
21,850
25,177
NA
16,139
20,305
12,382
9,378

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Field name

Location

Year of
discovery

Water
depth (ft)

Operator

MD (ft)

Falcon
Freedom/Gunflint
Front Runner
Front Runner South
Garden Banks 205
Geauxpher
Geauxpher
Genghis Kahn
Gladden
Goose
Green Canyon 448
Gunnison
Harrier
Hawkes
Healey
Hornet
Jason
K2
K2 North
Knotty Head
Longhorn
Longhorn North (prev. Ringo)

East Breaks 579

Mississippi Canyon 948
Green Canyon 338
Green Canyon 339
Garden Banks 205
Garden Banks 462
Garden Banks 465
Green Canyon 652
Mississippi Canyon 800
Mississippi Canyon 751
Green Canyon 449
Garden Banks 668
East Breaks 759
Mississippi Canyon 509
Green Canyon 82
Green Canyon 379
Green Canyon 344
Green Canyon 562
Green Canyon 518
Green Canyon 512
Mississippi Canyon 546
Mississippi Canyon 502

2001
2008
2000
2001
2002
2008
2008
2005
2008
2003
2008
2000
2003
2001
2007
2002
2000
2002
2004
2005
2006
2006

3,400
2,696
3,500
3,500
1,329
2,820
2,820
4,300
3,116
1,548
3,266
3,131
3,609
4,174
2,420
3,849
2,126
3,956
4,000
3,557
2,461
2,329

Pioneer
Newfield
Murphy
Murphy
LLOG
Mariner
Mariner
BHP Billiton
Newfield
Hydro
LLOG
Kerr-McGee
Pioneer
ExxonMobil
W&T
Anadarko
Newfield
Agip
Anadarko
Nexen
Nexen
ENI

10,295
NA
24,258
21,359
5,863
NA
NA
29,130
NA
14,288
NA
21,730
NA
23,143
11,980
19,350
NA
25,971
26,641
34,189
18,090
11,125

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Field name

Location

Year of
discovery

Water
depth (ft)

Operator

MD (ft)

Lorien
Lost Ark
Magellan
Marco Polo
Medusa North
Mighty Joe Young
Mississippi Canyon 401
Mississippi Canyon 503
Mississippi Canyon 68
Mississippi Canyon 72
Mississippi Canyon 837
Navajo
Ness
Noonan
North Boomvang1
North Boomvang2
Northwest Navajo
Ochre
Ozona Deep
Pardner
Perseua
Pony

Green Canyon 199

East Breaks 421
East Breaks 424
Green Canyon 608
Mississippi Canyon 538
Green Canyon 737
Mississippi Canyon 401
Mississippi Canyon 503
Mississippi Canyon 68
Mississippi Canyon 72
Mississippi Canyon 837
East Breaks 690
Green Canyon 507
Garden Banks 506
East Breaks 599
East Breaks 598
East Breaks 646
Mississippi Canyon 66
Garden Banks 515
Mississippi Canyon 400
Viosca Knoll 830
Green Canyon 468

2003
2001
2007
2000
2003
2000
2002
2007
2000
2008
2001
2001
2001
2007
2001
2001
2002
2002
2001
2001
2003
2006

2,179
2,740
2,800
4,300
2,185
4,429
1,134
3,099
1,353
2,013
1,520
4,114
3,950
2,700
3,153
3,416
3,937
1,144
3,280
1,200
3,376
3,440

Noble Energy
Noble Energy
Mariner
Anadarko
Murphy
Mariner
Apache
LLOG
Walter
LLOG
Walter
Kerr-McGee
Amerada Hess
Helix (ERT)
Anadarko
Anadarko
Kerr-McGee
Mariner
Marathon
Anadarko/Apache
Chevron
Amerada Hess

10,787
7,770
NA
18,071
10,130
11,400
NA
NA
NA
NA
7,000
12,972
12,500
NA
12,080
9,818
12,860
7,572
NA
17,010
13,134
32,448

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Field name

Location

Year of
discovery

Water
depth (ft)

Operator

MD (ft)

Princess
Puma
Quatrain
Raptor
Raton South
Redrock
Shenzi
Slam
South Dorado
Sturgis
SW Horseshoe
Swordfish
Tahiti
Telemark
Tomahawk
Tubular Bells
Tulane
West Navajo
West Tonga
Wrigley
Yosemite

Mississippi Canyon 765

Green Canyon 823
Green Canyon 382
East Breaks 713
Mississippi Canyon 292
Mississippi Canyon 204
Green Canyon 654
Mississippi Canyon 849
Viosca Knoll 915
Atwater Valley 183
East Breaks 430
Viosca Knoll 961
Green Canyon 640
Atwater Valley 63
East Breaks 623
Mississippi Canyon 725
Garden Banks 158
East Breaks 689
Green Canyon 726
Mississippi Canyon 506
Green Canyon 516

2000
2004
2002
2003
2007
2006
2002
2002
2003
2003
2000
2001
2002
2000
2003
2003
2001
2002
2007
2005
2001

3,650
4,130
3,500
3,600
3,400
3,334
4,400
3,599
3,494
3,700
2,285
4,677
4,017
4,385
3,514
4,300
1,100
3,905
4,700
3,700
4,452

Shell
BP
Murphy
Pioneer
Noble
Noble Energy
BHP
Noble Energy
BP
Chevron
Walter
Mariner
Chevron
ATP
Pioneer
BP
Amerada Hess
Kerr-McGee
Anadarko
Newfield
Agip

27,156
19,034
22,918
NA
20,913
23,365
26,857
16,227
14,990
NA
10,346
NA
27,500
18,898
9,054
31,131
12,000
12,918
NA
19,800
11,745

Challenge Summary

Legend
New Orleans

Miocene

Lower Tertiary

Salt Canopy

Halliburton Answers

Targets in the deepwater Miocene

trend have generally been influenced
by salt intrusion, making reservoir
geology difficult to understand.
Projects in the development phase
must balance increased well
complexity with a desire to reduce
drilling and completion costs.

The Lower Tertiary trend is generally

characterized by older sediments with
lower porosities, ultra-deepwater
depths, reservoir depths greater than
26,000 ft and high bottomhole
pressures.

The extensive Salt Canopy greatly

impacts seismic imaging quality.
Salt bodies present unique well
planning demands, slow drilling
progress and require highly
engineered completion solutions to
ensure long-term well productivity.

The complex challenges presented

by the Miocene and LowerTertiary
trends, coupled with the Salt Canopy
in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, are
immense.This table merely suggests a few.

EXPLORATION:
Seismic imaging in narrow
mini-basins
Sand identification

EXPLORATION:
Limited geologic/analogue
well information
Lack of reservoir modeling

DRILLING:
Narrow drilling margin
Borehole stability challenges
Complex well trajectories in
development projects
Improving drilling efficiency

DRILLING:
High well costs
Narrow drilling margin
Extreme reservoir depth

COMPLETION AND PRODUCTION:

High completion cost
Low reservoir porosity and
variances in permeability
Economic challenges due to
reservoir quality and flow
capability

COMPLETION AND PRODUCTION:

Unconsolidated formations
Cross flow between wells
due to extensive faulting
Production declines that
must be offset with methods
to enhance recovery

ULTRA-DEEPWATER DISCOVERIES

DEEPWATER DISCOVERIES

The answers are equally complex.

Shaped by geologic and economic
extremes, they require an all-inclusive
perspective that leverages every
capability across all disciplines.

EXPLORATION:
Seismic attenuation
Depth imaging below salt
Defining base of salt
Locating and identifying inclusions

Success in deepwater environments

also calls for a service company with
reliable and proven technology, along
with the experience and customer
commitment to achieve efficiencies
through the entire process, for the
life of the well.

DRILLING:
Drilling optimization through salt
High vibration and shock
Salt exit strategy
Unexpected tar deposits

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the critical operating challenges
presented in these tough environments. Join us at www.halliburton.com
for an in-depth look at how we can
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Gulf of Mexico.

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35

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60

EWING BANK

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40 41

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34

31
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DESOTO CANYON

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Corpus Christi
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MISSISSIPPI CANYON
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75

VIOSCA KNOLL

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COMPLETION AND PRODUCTION:

Casing size limitations
Salt creep
Reservoir compartmentalization
Reservoir compaction with
pressure depletion

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MIOCENE TREND

LOWER TERTIARY TREND

SALT CANOPY

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GARDEN BANKS
28 13
58

EAST BREAKS AREA

GREEN CANYON
33

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ATWATER VALLEY

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LLOYD RIDGE

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Gulf Of Mexico
Geologic Column

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Ma
0.01

Pleistocene

Epoch
Holocene

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Recent

Pleistocene

11
27

Pliocene

1.8

13

Pliocene
ALAMINOS CANYON

PORT ISABEL AREA

KEATHLEY CANYON

5.3

Mio-Pliocene

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WALKER RIDGE

Miocene

(Upper Tertiary)

Cenozoic

Neogene

Quaternary

Period

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CORPUS CHRISTI AREA

Era

50

Upper Miocene

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Middle Miocene

26
19

Lower Miocene
23.8

Oligocene

LUND
Representative Cross SectionNorth
to South

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10,000

Pleistocene

Frio/Vicksburg
33.7

Pliocene

SALT
CANOPY

Jackson/Yazoo
Moody's Branch

20,000

Sparta

Eocene

(Lower Tertiary)

Paleogene

Cook Mountain

U Miocene

Weches

L Miocene

Queen City

M Miocene

Reklaw Shale

54.8

L Tertiary

Upper Wilcox

30,000

Cretaceous

Paleocene

Middle Wilcox

40,000

Cretaceous

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Illustration Credit: Berman, A. E. and J. H. Rosenfeld, 2007, Deep-water Gulf of Mexico Wilcox play: A new paradigm for the Gulf Coast Paleogene: Petroleum Frontiers, v. 21, no. 1, IHS, Inc., Englewood, CO, 56 p.

Deepwater Chalks

Tuscaloosa Sands

Deepwater Carbonates

ULTRA

145

DEEPWATER
Jurassic

Mesozoic

Jurassic

SALT

Lower Wilcox

Louann Salt

DISCOVERIES
5,000 FT

200

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Field name

Location

Year of
discovery

Aconcagua
Atlantis
Atlas
Atlas NW
Baha
Bass Lite
Big Foot
Blind Faith
Callisto
Camden Hills
Cascade
Cheyenne
Chinook
Constitution
Dalmatian
Devil's Tower
Freedom/Gunflint

Mississippi Canyon 305

Green Canyon 699
Lloyd Ridge 50
Lloyd Ridge 5
Alaminos Canyon 600
Atwater Valley 426
Walker Ridge 29
Mississippi Canyon 696
Mississippi Canyon 876
Mississippi Canyon 348
Walker Ridge 206
Lloyd Ridge 399
Walker Ridge 469
Green Canyon 680
DeSoto Canyon 48
Mississippi Canyon 773
Mississippi Canyon 948

1999
1998
2003
2004
1996
2001
2006
2001
2001
1999
2002
2004
2003
2003
2008
1999
2008

Water
depth (ft)
7,039
6,133
9,000
8,810
7,620
6,623
5,000
6,900
7,800
7,213
8,203
8,987
8,826
5,100
5,876
5,607
6,100

Operator

MD (ft)

Total
BP
Anadarko
Anadarko
Shell
Mariner
Chevron
Chevron
Total
Marathon
Petrobras
Anadarko
Petrobras
Kerr-McGee
Murphy
Dominion
BP

13,923
19,525
19,828
16,769
NA
14,120
25,933
24,000
20,780
15,365
30,213
27,775
27,652
13,727
NA
18,403
29,280

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34

Field name

Location

Year of
discovery

Goldfinger
Gotcha
Great White
Horn Mountain
Isabela
Jack
Jubilee
Jubilee Extension
Julia
Kaskida
Keltics
King
King West
King's Peak 1
Kodiak
La Femme
Mensa

Mississippi Canyon 771

Alaminos Canyon 856
Alaminos Canyon 857
Mississippi Canyon 126
Mississippi Canyon 562
Walker Ridge 759
Atwater Valley 349
Lloyd Ridge 309
Walker Ridge 627
Keathley Canyon 292
Mississippi Canyon 912
Mississippi Canyon 84
Mississippi Canyon 84
DeSoto Canyon 133
Mississippi Canyon 771
Mississippi Canyon 427
Mississippi Canyon 731

2004
2006
2002
1999
2007
2004
2003
2005
2007
2006
2002
1993
2002
1992
2008
2004
1986

Water
depth (ft)
5,423
7,800
8,009
5,400
6,500
7,000
8,800
8,774
7,087
5,860
6,700
5,386
5,430
6,541
5,000
5,800
5,300

Operator

MD (ft)

Dominion
Shell
Shell
BP
BP
Chevron
Anadarko
Anadarko
ExxonMobil
BP
ExxonMobil
BP
BP
BP
BP
Newfield
Shell

NA
15,625
19,705
14,677
19,100
29,000
18,309
NA
31,167
32,499
26,000
15,185
10,783
12,834
31,150
11,323
15,500

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Field name

Location

Merganser
Mission Deep
Na Kika - Airel
Na Kika - Coulomb
Na Kika - E. Anstey
Na Kika - Fourier
Na Kika - Herschel
Na Kika - Kepler
Neptune
Q
Red Hawk
Rigel
San Jacinto
Seventeen Hands
Silvertip
South Dachshund/
Mondo NW Extension

Atwater Valley 37
Green Canyon 955
Mississippi Canyon 429
Mississippi Canyon 657
Mississippi Canyon 607
Mississippi Canyon 522
Mississippi Canyon 520
Mississippi Canyon 383
Atwater Valley 575
Mississippi Canyon 961
Garden Banks 877
Mississippi Canyon 252
DeSoto Canyon 618
Mississippi Canyon 299
Alaminos Canyon 815
Lloyd Ridge 001

Year of
discovery
2002
2006
1995
1988
1998
1989
1997
1987
1995
2005
2001
1999
2004
2000
2004
2005

Water
depth (ft)
7,900
7,300
6,200
7,600
7,000
7,000
6,800
5,800
6,162
7,925
5,300
5,200
7,850
5,400
9,226
8,340

Operator
Anadarko
Anadarko
BP
Shell
BP
BP
BP
BP
BHP
Hydro
Kerr-McGee
Dominion
Dominion
Murphy
Shell
Anadarko

MD (ft)
21,740
26,536
12,033
16,767
NA
19,200
17,500
17,660
19,012
18,607
23,500
16,200
15,829
11,570
14,778
NA

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Field name

Location

Spiderman
St. Malo
Stones
Thunder Hawk
Thunder Horse
Thunder Horse North
Ticonderoga
Tiger
Tobago
Tortuga
Trident
Triton
Vicksburg
Vortex

DeSoto Canyon 621

Walker Ridge 678
Walker Ridge 508
Mississippi Canyon 734
Mississippi Canyon 778
Mississippi Canyon 776
Green Canyon 768
Alaminos Canyon 818
Alaminos Canyon 859
Mississippi Canyon 561
Alaminos Canyon 903
Mississippi Canyon 772
DeSoto Canyon 353
Atwater Valley 261

Year of
discovery
2003
2003
2005
2004
1999
2000
2004
2004
2004
2008
2002
2002
2007
2002

Water
depth (ft)
8,100
6,900
9,576
5,724
6,103
5,640
5,250
9,004
9,627
6,500
9,687
5,610
7,457
8,340

Operator

MD (ft)

Anadarko
Chevron
BP
Murphy
BP
BP
Kerr-McGee
Chevron
Shell
Noble Energy
Chevron
Dominion
Shell
BHP

18,065
28,903
29,400
24,831
25,770
26,046
13,556
15,231
18,510
19,885
20,500
14,445
24,500
21,140