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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

BP announced a giant oil discovery at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The well, located in Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 kilometers) south east of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 metres) of water. The well found oil in multiple Lower Tertiary reservoirs.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

BP announced today the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The well encountered about 166 net feet (50 meters) of hydrocarbons in the objective Miocene hydrocarbon-bearing sands and discovered an oil column of more than 300 feet (91 meters).

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Chevron announced that crude oil and natural gas production has begun at the ultra-deepwater Jack/St. Malo project in the Lower Tertiary trend, US Gulf of Mexico. Malo fields are among the largest in the Gulf of Mexico. Malo Oil Export Pipeline, and then onto refineries along the Gulf Coast. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

miles) and at least eight years in operation. The first technology demonstrator was the compact A2H2 in 2004, which was already equipped with a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM). The result is known as blue crude, which—similar to crude oil—can be refined to create the end product Audi e-diesel.

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