The well was drilled through a 1300-foot thick salt tablet encountered at 9270 feet to a depth of 13,287 feet. Production from the well is being processed at the Enchilada A platform, as will future production from wells planned from the recently installed Salsa B platform in Garden Banks block 172. Additional wells are planned to develop reserves at Enchilada, about half of which will be subsalt.
Enchilada chimes in with a hit for Shell
SHELL Offshore has commenced production from the first subsalt well in the Enchilada field in Garden Banks block 127 in the Gulf of Mexico, writes Blake Wright. The block 127 Chimichanga well tested at an initial rate of 20 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 2100 barrels per day of oil.
11 July 1998 0:00 GMT
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11 July 1998 0:00 GMT
