Chevron’s Big Foot platform is on its way to the Walker Ridge area, offshore deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
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Walker Ridge is located approximately 360km south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1600m water depth.
The platform sailed away from Corpus Christi, Texas on 14 March, and floated through the La Quinta Ship Channel, under tow to its site.
Chevron says that once Big Foot is safely anchored to the ocean floor, the offshore hook-up and commissioning work will begin, followed by the development well drilling and completion campaign.
Big Foot is a dry-tree extended tension-leg platform (ETLP) with an on-board drilling rig and production capacity of 75,000bbl and 25 MMcft/d of natural gas.
Chevron’s subsidiary, Chevron USA Inc. is the operator with a 60% interest, along with partners Statoil (27.5%) and Marubeni Oil & Gas (12.5%).
In January, Chevron’s deepwater Gulf of Mexico’s Anchor prospect hit big after encountering a significant oil discovery at Well No. 2. The well, located 225km off the coast of Louisiana in the Green Canyon Block 807, in 1580m water depth, was drilled by Pacific Drilling’s Pacific Santa Ana drillship, to a depth of 10,287m. Chevron confirmed that high quality oil pay was found in multiple Lower Tertiary Wilcox Sands at the well and is expecting to begin appraisal drilling later this year.
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