Discovered over a decade ago, the Jack and St Malo fields lie 40 kilometres apart in the Gulf of Mexico’s emerging Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend, in water depths of 7000 feet. After briefly considering developing the fields separately, operator Chevron opted for a joint development using a single deep-draft production semisumbersible in Walker Ridge Block 718 as an anchor platform that could support a number of tiebacks in area.
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