BP's 'Giant' Discovery A Boon for GOM Deepwater

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In what may be one of the biggest oil and gas finds in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in a decade, BP plc last week an-nounced a "giant" discovery in the promising Lower Tertiary trend, a find that analysts said will reaffirm the importance of the U.S. offshore to domestic energy supplies. New technologies are enabling producers to find more oil and gas at deeper depths than ever before, a BP spokesman toldNGI.TheTiberwell,whichisnearBP'spromisingKaskida well, may be the "deepest well ever drilled by the oil and gas industry," he said. The Kaskida well contains an estimated 3 billion boe in place, and if Tiber proves its worth, the two discoveries alone could increase BP's GOM output by more than 60% to 650,000 boe/d within the next 15 years, the spokesman said.