W&T Offshore Inc. announced in a press release a subsalt oil discovery at the Dantzler exploration prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The well is located on Mississippi Canyon Block 782 in 2,006 m (6,580 ft) of water and was drilled to a total depth of 5,863 m (19,234 ft).
Wireline logging data indicate approximately 37 m (120 ft) of net pay in two high-quality Miocene reservoirs that are primarily crude oil, according to the release. W&T Offshore holds a 20% working interest in this well, which is operated by Noble Energy Inc.
The Dantzler discovery is located roughly 19 km (12 miles) west of W&T’s previous discoveries at Big Bend and Troubadour in the Mississippi Canyon 698 and 699 blocks. The operator has provided discovered gross resource estimates at Dantzler of between 55 MMboe and 95 MMboe.
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