Offshore staff
NEW YORK -- Hess Corp. has completed its Pony sidetrack well No. 2 in Green Canyon block 468.
The well, drilled to 9,337 m (30,634 ft) TD, encountered 85 m (280 ft) of oil pay in Miocene age reservoirs after penetrating 60% of its objective.
According to the company, the sidetrack well established a record for the deepest conventional core ever recovered in the Gulf of Mexico, at 137 m (450 ft).
The company says the oil bearing section in the sidetrack well is similar in thickness and quality to the equivalent interval in the discovery well, which was drilled to 9,890 m (32,448 ft) TD and encountered 145 m (475 ft) of oil pay.
Total hydrocarbon resources are estimated in the range of 100-600 MMboe. Hess has a 100% working interest in the Pony field.
The company has arranged for the semiOcean Baroness to appraise Pony No. 2.
01/04/2007
