On the eve of starting a wildcat well, however, Pew was able to tap key information from an advanced exploration technique known as three-dimensional seismic.
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He added that because the success rate for wildcat wells was about one in five, Texaco's three-for-three record in the gulf this year was encouraging.
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Few years later, Devon Canada chose " SDC " over artificial islands to drill the first wildcat well in the Canadian Beaufort Sea in 17 years.
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In late October 2013, Tullow announced it had plugged and abandoned a wildcat well offshore Norway in the Barents Sea due to poor quality reservoir rock.
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It was a wildcat well, and while not commercially viable and quickly abandoned, suggested to prospectors that it was worth looking more carefully for oil in the vicinity.
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It will also drill two firm wildcat wells and undertake a series of studies to provide a regional framework to understand and define the petroleum systems within the block.
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Drilling for oil and gas is not the hit-or-miss proposition it was when the Humble Co . first struck oil in Florida with a wildcat well in Collier County in 1943.
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Drilling for oil and gas is not the hit or miss proposition it was when the Humble Co . first struck oil in Florida with a wildcat well in Collier County in 1943.
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The company said it also plans to drill six deep-water exploratory wildcat wells in 2000 and to increase its participation in the U . S . power sector through increased investment in Dynegy Inc . of Houston.
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When Texaco found oil after drilling a wildcat well in almost 3, 300 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the oil giant was eager to drill more wells to test the size of the discovery.
