Rickenbacker Dry Hole Latest Stumbling Block for Lower Tertiary

摘要

The promising Rickenbacker deepwater prospect in the Gulf of Mexico has come up dry - the fourth such disappointment in the region's Lower Tertiary trend to be made public this year. The Anadarko-operated well, which targeted a pre-drill resource estimate of almost 670 million barrels of oil equivalent, was plugged and abandoned at the end of last month after failing to meet expectations.