Tiber Oil Field is located in the Keathley Canyon block 102 of the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico.
 It required the drilling of a 10,685 m (35,056 ft) deep well under 1,260 m (4,130 ft) of water, making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled at the time of discovery
  Much of the deeper gulf reserves are buried under salt accumulations thousands of feet thick, which present a problem for seismic exploration

