Chevron's Jack #2 may point to up to 15 billion BOE

摘要

For several analysts,the record-setting test results from Chevron Corp.'s Jack #2 well at Walker Ridge Block 758 in the ultra-deep-water Gulf of Mexico have confirmed the potential productivity of many Lower Tertiary discoveries.Currently,there is no Gulf of Mexico production of that age."The announcement of Jack #2 is meaningful because it opens a new fairway,which could have 3-to 15 billion barrels of oil equivalent of recoverable reserves,"says Merrill Lynch oil and gas analyst John Herri in.