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LLOG Touts Discovery at 'Nearly Headless Nick' Well in the Deepwater GOM
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LLOG Exploration Company has provided a detailed update on the status of its recent operations.
Key highlights include:
- Drilled successful discovery on LLOG’s exploratory prospect, Nearly Headless Nick, in Mississippi Canyon 387
- Brought online five new fields in 2018, of which four initiated production in the fourth quarter, adding a total of eight new producing wells in 2018
- The five LLOG-operated fields represents over half of the nine total fields brought online in the entire Deepwater GOM
- Forecasting three new fields being brought online in 2019 from five wells
- Four additional development wells from existing fields also expected to be brought online in 2019
Mississippi Canyon 387: Nearly Headless Nick Discovery
The Nearly Headless Nick discovery was drilled by LLOG using the Rowan Resolute mobile offshore drilling unit. The well was drilled to target Upper Middle Miocene sands in water depths of over 6,500 feet and 150 miles southeast of New Orleans. The well encountered oil pay in high quality Miocene sandstone reservoirs and is expected to be tied back to the nearby LLOG-operated Delta House facility in Mississippi Canyon 254. LLOG’s partners in the discovery include BP, Centaurus, Kosmos and Ridgewood(1).
LLOG Operated Discoveries Expected to be Brought Online in 2019
There are nine wells expected to be brought online in 2019, which include four development wells at Who Dat, Mandy and Red Zinger. In addition, five wells from three new fields, Stonefly, Buckskin and Nearly Headless Nick, are forecasted to be brought online in 2019. LLOG continues to progress 10 other developments and has an extensive pipeline of follow up development drilling to prior exploratory successes.