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Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: Main Pass 61/62 Field – A Recent 50 MMBOE
Discovery Among the Old Giants of Main Pass
By
POGO Producing Co.
Houston, Texas
As geoscientists working the Offshore Gulf of Mexico we are
often asked, “why can’t you find normally pressured, shallow
water prospects near shore?”Main Pass 61/62 Field (MP 61/62) is
one of those management dreams come true. This field is located
in 90 feet of water, 9 miles off the Mississippi river delta and
situated among three fields that have produced 1/3 of the Federal
Main Pass OCS portraction area oil and gas. MP 61/62 is a
normally pressured, stratagraphic 
trap
located at a depth of
7,200 feet sub-sea true vertical depth (SSTVD). Working off
nearby company properties, and utilizing traditional subsurface
and 3D seismic control, discovery and development of 50 million
barrels of oil equivalent took 30 months. The field’s production
of 20–30,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day was accomplished
by the installation of two manned platforms and two caissons.
A third water injection platform was installed to maintain a
formation pressure in the primary reservoir.
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