Anadarko Petroleum Announces Oil Discovery At Vito Exploration Well In Mississippi Canyon Block 984, Gulf Of Mexico
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko Petroleum) said that its Vito exploration well has struck more than 250 net feet of oil pay in subsalt Miocene sands. The well was drilled to a total depth of about 32,000 feet in 4,038 feet of water, using the Noble Amos Runner deepwater drilling rig. Once operations are complete at Vito, Anadarko Petroleum plans to move the rig to conduct drilling operations at the operated Caesar/Tonga development in the Green Canyon area.
Anadarko Petroleum operates the Vito well with a 20% working interest. Co-owners in the discovery include Shell Offshore Inc. with a 55% working interest and StatoilHydro USA E&P Inc. with a 25% working interest. Shell will assume operatorship of Vito after rig release on the current well.
"We are very excited with the initial results encountered at the Vito well," said Bob Daniels, Anadarko Petroleum senior vice president, Worldwide Exploration. "The success at Vito continues to demonstrate the tremendous quality of our deepwater portfolio of high-impact prospects. We expect to drill two additional prospects that are targeting similar subsalt Miocene objective sections along this trend at our Silverado and Haleakala prospects in Mississippi Canyon in 2010. In the meantime, the partners will continue evaluating the data from Vito and the timing of an appraisal well."
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