The fields are located 40km apart. The deepwater project was approved by the partners in October The first production was announced in December Chevron is currently developing the St.
Malo Stage 4 waterflood project to boost production from the field. The first water injection is expected in the second half of The Jack and St. Malo fields are located miles km south of New Orleans offshore Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Jack field lies in Walker Ridge blocks and at a water depth of 7,ft and the St Malo field lies in Walker Ridge Block at a water depth of 2,ft. The well struck a net oil pay of 1,ft. The Jack field was discovered in July by the exploration well Jack It struck ft of net oil pay. The Jack and St Malo field reservoirs are located in a geological formation known as the lower tertiary trend.
The formation was deposited more than 65 million years ago, 20,ft below the seabed. The formation is estimated to contain vast resources for long-life projects of up to 30 to 40 years.
The total recoverable resources of the two fields are estimated at more than million oil-equivalent barrels. Stage one was completed in , followed by stage two in and stage three in May The initial phases of development involved drilling ten production wells: four at Jack and six at St Malo.
