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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: West Delta
Block
107 Field, Gulf of Mexico
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Shell Deepwater
West Delta Block
107 Field, located eight miles seaward of Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River in
235 feet of water (Fig. 1a), contains approximately 18 million
barrels of oil (MMBO) and 70 billion cubic feet of gas
(BCFG) (recoverable) in nineteen Pliocene sands.
Hydrocarbons are trapped in a three-way structural closure
downthrown to a large down-to-the-southeast growth fault.
Stratigraphic variation plays a minor trapping in five sands.
Walter Oil & Gas Corporation discovered the field in 1993 with its OCS-G 8736 No. 1 well, located within a large, active mudflow lobe that has caused major difficulties in seismic and drilling exploration over the years. Due to effects of the mudflow, pre-1983 2D seismic data did not adequately define the amplitude response or the structure of the prospect. Only after 1988 3D seismic data was reprocessed with refraction statics corrections by Shell Offshore, Inc in 1993, was it possible to interpret structure and amplitude correctly enough to discover the field. A 1996 3D survey further improved data quality and has refined our understanding of the field.
The field has been developed by seven wells. Five of
the wells were drilled from a conventional platform (West
Delta 106 "A" platform) (Fig. 1 b) outside the mudflow and
two miles west of the field. The other two wells (including
the discovery well) are active subsea completions. Daily
field production rate since February 1995 has averaged
7200 barrels of oil (BO) and 17 million cubic feet of gas
(MMCFG) daily. Block
107 Field was nearly found in 1968
by Humble Oil & Refining Company's OCS-G 1591 No. 1
well and in 1983 by McMoran's OCS-G 4244 No. 2 well,
each of which missed the main accumulation by less than
200 feet horizontally (Fig. 2).
Figure 1a. & 1b. Location Map and detail of Block
W.D. Blk. 107
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Figure 2. Schematic structural cross-section A-A' through field composite type log and previous key exploratory wells.
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