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The state of Louisiana issued its first offshore oil and gas lease in 1936, and the following year the Pure Oil Company discovered the first Louisiana offshore oil field, the Creole Field, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the shore of Cameron Parish, from a platform built on timber pilings in 10-to-15-foot-deep (3.0 to 4.6 m) water.
Eugene Island block 330 oil field is an oil field in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located 170 miles (270 km) southwest of New Orleans , 70–85 miles (113–137 km) off the Louisiana coast comprising six and a half leased blocks: Eugene Island 313, 314 south, 330, 331, 332, 337 and 338.
The federal government has had no new lease sales for offshore California since 1982. Offshore drilling has continued from existing platforms in state and federal waters. State offshore seabed in California produced 37,400 barrels (5,950 m 3 ) of oil per day, and federal offshore tracts produced 66,400 barrels (10,560 m 3 ) of oil per day in ...
BP purchased the mineral rights to drill for oil in the Macondo Prospect at the Minerals Management Service's lease sale in March 2008. [7] Mapping of the block was carried out by BP America in 2008 and 2009. [8] BP secured approval to drill the Macondo Prospect from MMS in March 2009. An exploration well was scheduled to be drilled in 2009. [3]
According to GCAGS Transactions, it has an average width of 8 kilometres (5.0 mi), and a length of 120 kilometres (75 mi). The US Minerals Management Service (MMS) applies the name Mississippi Canyon to numbered federal oil and gas lease blocks over a large offshore area centered on, but mostly outside, the submarine canyon.
Green Canyon is an area in the Gulf of Mexico [1] that is rich in oil fields and under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.Among other oil fields Green Canyon consist of Atlantis (blocks 699, 700, 742, 743, and 744) operated by BP, [2] Marco Polo (block 608) and K2 (blocks 518 and 562) operated by Anadarko Petroleum, [3] [4] Manatee (block 155) operated by Shell, [5 ...
Scientists will use acoustic surveys and take sediment samples to map the ocean floor.
The petroleum rights for the block 292 were acquired by BP, Devon Energy and Anadarko Petroleum in a federal lease sale in August 2003. [1] The Kaskida field was discovered in 2006 in a water depth of 5,860 feet (1,790 m). Transocean's drilling rig Deepwater Horizon drilled a well to a total depth of approximately 32,500 feet (9,900 m). [2]