September 5, 2006 – Chevron Announces Jack 2 in the Gulf of Mexico’s Walker Ridge Block 758. “The Jack well was completed, tested in 7,000 feet of water … [and broke] Chevron’s 2004 Tahiti well test record as the deepest successful well test [28,175 feet] in the Gulf of Mexico.” The Times-Picayune / nola.com needs on-staff geologists; it’s Tertiary, not tertiary. Never mind, capitalized or not, it’s like saying ball instead of specifying whether it’s a basketball, football, wiffle ball, etc. [Geology] education is practically non-existent in this nation anyway. *mutter mutter sigh sigh*
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At least they have Dan Swenson who can do GIS. But yeah, I get your point, and you’re right. I’ve noticed quite a few bad edits slipping through lately.
I admit I don’t know Jack – but I seem to remember that you guys also have a couple of deep ones working. What is new with them?
And how come my comments are hitting the wrong post?
Shell is pursuing the Great White discovery (also in 7000 ft of water) in the Alaminos Canyon trend farther to the west. It also has a working interest in all the Stones prospect blocks (9500 feet of water) in the Walker Ridge area referenced in the above post.
Keep in mind that the Jack 2 numbers were good for this particular well test and that the billions of barrels number is for the whole Walker Ridge trend. The volume of the prospect as a whole and its future development have still not been mentioned.
How long will it be before they can start bringing crude onshore from Walker Ridge?
There aren’t any pipelines out that far, are there?
And I haven’t thought about the oil in the Wilcox for years. Been mostly interested
in the faulted bits of it underneath Crowley’s Ridge up in Arkansas.
Aren’t they estimating four-five years for development and production? Although if they want to make use of the high-price market, they should redrill and complete now, and start producing stat.