Deepwater Lower Tertiary, Shallow-Water Deep Shelf Driving Exploration Activity

摘要

Houston-It is hard to remember an oil discovery generating the kind of positive buzz that the Jack No. 2 delineation well did in early September when Chevron Corp., Devon Energy Corp. and Statoil announced the results of well testing operations at the Jack location in the distant reaches of the Gulf of Mexico, some 175 miles off the Louisiana coast. From the Wall Street Journal to USA Today, and nearly every other newspaper in the country as well as prominent play on network television news, and even a mention by Jay Leno during his monologue on the Tonight Show, the ultradeepwater well was the lead story of the day.