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Thursday, 05/18/2006 8:07:06 PM

Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:07:06 PM

Chevron keeps lid on Jack test results in US Gulf

By Upstream staff

Chevron is keeping the results of the first well test at the deep-water Jack oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico under wraps as the US supermajor prepares to flow the well again, writes Anthony Guegel.
The Jack well in Walker Ridge Block 758 flowed for about two weeks before it was shut-in this week, a Chevron spokesman confirmed.

Transocean's semi-submersible rig Cajun Express will start a second flow test in about a week or so, he said, but it remains undetermined how long it will be on production.

Produced oil is being offloaded on to barges. The spokesman declined to give flow rates or total production figures.

"After the flow tests are over there will be a continuation of analysis of the flow test data and if we feel we have something to say we'll say something," said the spokesman.

"Our folks say that even when that one is over and we shut it in that it will be weeks if not months probably before we would say anything," he added. Chevron and its partners put the 29,000-foot plus well on extended testing to evaluate the production characteristics and confirm the permeability of the reservoir.

According to Chevron's partner Statoil, first oil could be achieved from either Jack or the nearby St Malo discovery in 2013.

Jack was found in 2004 with the discovery well hitting more than 350 feet of oil pay.

Chevron holds a 50% operating stake in Jack followed by Devon (25%) and Statoil (25%).