Completion efforts with the the Rowan EXL III jack-up will start at the Davy Jones-2 well in December, John Schiller, chief executive of project partner Energy XXI, said at the Bloomberg Oil & Gas conference in Houston.

Operator McMoRan had said in early 2013 that it had moved that same rig off the Davy Jones-1 wildcat after a range of efforts to flow gas from the well, a closely watched 2010 discovery that logged 200 net feet of pay in multiple Wilcox sands.

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