By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 10 -- Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp. plans to set casing in and temporarily abandon an apparent discovery well on its Dawson Deep prospect, on Garden Banks Block 625 in the Gulf of Mexico, while it studies development.
The Dawson Deep well, which earlier had found more than 100 ft of total vertical thickness of resistivity in a shallow zone, was sidetracked and drilled to 22,790 ft TD. A log-while-drilling tool indicated more than 100 ft of hydrocarbon-bearing sands in the deeper zone—the original objective.
Project sanctioning is possible in first quarter 2005, said partner McMoRan Exploration Co. The well is 150 miles off Texas adjacent to the Gunnison spar.