On 4 November 2019, Kosmos Energy announced that it had drilled a dry hole at its Moneypenny prospect located in Mississippi Canyon block 214 (G24059) in the northeast quadrant of the Mississippi Canyon (MC) protraction area in the deepwater Central Gulf of Mexico. Well MC 214 2S0B1 (API 608174138001) is located in 5,778 ft (1,761 m) of water about 132 mi (212 km) east of the onshore support base at Port Fourchon, Louisiana.  Well MC 214 2S0B1 was originally drilled in 2018 as a development well in the Miocene-aged Odd Job field, operated by Kosmos and located in MC 214 and MC 215. The Moneypenny prospect was a deeper pool test and drilled in October 2019 as an exploration tail to the development well, which will now be completed. Kosmos used the Valaris 8503 drillship for the exploratory portion of the well.  Kosmos operates the lease with 61.05702% working interest. The remaining working interest owners are Ridgewood (19.47149%) and ILX (19.47149%).  MC 214 was acquired by operator Spinnaker (50%) and Dominion (50%) at Sale 182 in March 2002 for a bonus bid of USD 3,575,555. The partnership beat out a competing bid of USD 218,925 from Conoco. Norsk Hydro acquired Spinnaker in 2005, and then merged with Statoil in 2007. Also in 2007, Eni acquired this and other Gulf of Mexico assets from Dominion. Deep Gulf Energy acquired Statoil's interest in 2011. Calypso then joined the partnership in 2013. Eni sold its interest to Deep Gulf in 2014. Ridgewood and ILX joined the partnership in 2015. Calypso withdrew in 2018, resulting in the current working interest ownership.  Background Information  Eni drilled the Odd Job discovery well MC 214 1S0B0 (API 608174125900) in 2013. Deep Gulf Energy drilled the MC 215 1S0B1 (API 608174129101) in 2015, confirming that the field extends into MC 215. Odd Job came online in 2016 and has produced over 9.9 MMbo and 6.4 Bcfg through the end of June 2019. It is tied back to the Murphy-operated Delta House floating production system in MC 254 about 12 mi (20 km) to the west.
MC 214 002S0B1 (Monneypenny) (Kosmos 61,06% op, Ridgewood 19,47%, ILX 19,47%) in G24059 lease Odd Job field area P&A dry, w.o details