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    1. Drilling & Completion

    Kosmos to P&A latest deepwater Gulf of Mexico well

    Jan. 29, 2020
    Kosmos Energy has completed drilling the Oldfield exploration well in the US Gulf of Mexico.
    (Courtesy Kosmos Energy)
    The Oldfield exploration well was drilled in the Mississippi Canyon area in the Gulf of Mexico.
    The Oldfield exploration well was drilled in the Mississippi Canyon area in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Offshore staff

    DALLAS – Kosmos Energy has completed drilling the Oldfield exploration well in the US Gulf of Mexico.

    Oldfield (Kosmos 40%, Hess 60%) was designed to test a sub-salt Miocene prospect in the Mississippi Canyon area. The well did not encounter commercial quantities of hydrocarbons and will now be P&A’d.

    The Oldfield well is in about 1,500 m (4,921 ft) of water and was drilled to a total depth of approximately 6,500 m (21,325 ft).

    After P&A’ing the well, the semisubmersible drilling rig Valaris 8503 will move to the Kodiak field to begin operations on a new infill producer well.

    The company said it plans to drill three more infrastructure-led exploration wells in the Gulf of Mexico in 2020.

    01/29/2020