By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 9 -- ATP Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, will use a retrofitted Rowan Midland semisubmersible to handle production from Gomez oil and gas field, on Mississippi Canyon Block 711 in the western Gulf of Mexico.
ATP, operator of Gomez with a 100% working interest, plans to install the semi in about 3,000 ft of water during the third quarter and start production from two wells in the fourth quarter. Prior to movement to the field, the unit will be in Sabine Pass for installation of production facilities.
ATP last December tested the Mississippi Canyon No. 4 ST1 well, a reentry of a 1997 discovery, at a rate of 13,610 b/d of oil, with flowing tubing pressures of more than 3,500 psi and very little reservoir drawdown. The well logged 157 total net ft of oil and gas pay in Lower Pliocene sands (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2004, Newsletter).
