Exploration Success in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
January 19 2021 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Kosmos Energy (NYSE/LSE: KOS) announced today an oil discovery
in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico at the Winterfell infrastructure-led
exploration (“ILX”) well (Kosmos working interest 17.5%).
Winterfell was designed to test a sub-salt Upper Miocene
prospect located in Green Canyon Block 944. The well encountered
approximately 26 meters (85 feet) of net oil pay in two
intervals.
Andrew G. Inglis, Kosmos Energy’s chairman and chief executive
officer said: “We are pleased to have started the New Year with
exploration success at Winterfell validating our proven basin
exploration strategy, which is focused on low cost, short cycle,
low carbon development solutions. The Winterfell well was funded by
a portion of the proceeds from the partial sale of our frontier
exploration portfolio. The well in Green Canyon Block 944 de-risks
prospectivity in several neighboring blocks held by Kosmos, with
approximately 100 million barrels of gross potential within Kosmos’
acreage position.”
The Winterfell well is located in approximately 1,600 meters
(5,300 feet) of water and was drilled to a total depth of
approximately 7,000 meters (23,000 feet). An affiliate of Beacon
Offshore Energy LLC is operator of the Winterfell well. Additional
interest owners include Red Willow Offshore LLC, Ridgewood Monarch
North LLC, CSL Exploration, LP, CL&F Offshore LLC, Houston
Energy, L.P., Beacon Offshore Energy Exploration LLC, and Beacon
Asset Holdings LLC. Kosmos will now work with partners on an
appraisal plan and development options. The discovery is located
within tie back distance to several existing and planned host
facilities.
The company also plans to drill the Zora ILX well in the Gulf of
Mexico later in the year.
About Kosmos Energy
Kosmos is a full-cycle deepwater independent oil and gas
exploration and production company focused along the Atlantic
Margins. Our key assets include production offshore Ghana,
Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as a world-class
gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. Kosmos is listed
on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange and is
traded under the ticker symbol KOS. As an ethical and transparent
company, Kosmos is committed to doing things the right way. The
Company’s Business Principles articulate our commitment to
transparency, ethics, human rights, safety and the environment.
Read more about this commitment in the Kosmos 2019 Sustainability
Report. For additional information, visit www.kosmosenergy.com.
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