On 1 August 2020, Chevron USA was formally awarded two Alaminos Canyon blocks: AC 599 (G36865) AC 600 (G36866), sited in the East Texas Coastal Basin. The blocks were originally offered as part of recent GOM-wide OCS Lease Sale 254, which was held on 18 March 2020. AC 600 is the site of the 1996 Baha oil discovery. The Baha 1 well, known as G08580 1, was spudded on 15 April 1996 and had been designed to test fractured Mesozoic carbonates. The well had a PTD of (6,707 m), but was TDâd on 17 June 2020 and subsequently abandoned due to mechanical problems at 3,417m, resulting from a narrow drilling margin encountered while drilling the Eocene section. G08580 1 logged 5m of oil pay in the Late Eocene sand, thus confirming the presence of a working petroleum system. A subsequent appraisal well, G08272 1 (Baha 2) was drilled in 2001 on AC 557. That well encountered extensive Wilcox equivalent turbidite sands over a 1,372m (gross) interval. Additionally, G08272 1 also found 4m of oil in the Upper Wilcox Formation. Chevron USA is the operator and sole interest-holder (100% WI + Op) in AC 599 and AC 600.
(GOM B.) Chevron was formally awarded two Alaminos Canyon blocks: AC 599 (G36865) & AC 600 (G36866) as the operator and sole interest-holder (100%).