The well, located in Mississippi Canyon block 771 approximately 60 miles southeast of the Louisiana Coast, is in about 5,000 feet of water. The Kodiak well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 31,150 feet and encountered about 500 net feet of hydrocarbon-bearing sands in Middle and Lower Miocene reservoirs. The well was deviated with a horizontal step-out of 7,400 feet.
Andy Inglis, CEO for exploration and production at BP America, said: This discovery, in the vicinity of our 2003 Tubular Bells discovery, further strengthens BP’s resource base in the Gulf of Mexico and has the potential to become an important new source of production for the US.
