Before exploration or development of a lease can be executed by an operator a plan
must be submitted and approved by the Minerals Management Service (MMS). These plans
are publicly available and contain valuable information that can provide business
development and marketing professionals up to a three years advance notice of potential
work.
MMS plans can be more than 100 pages long and extracting the important data elements
requires a patient and experienced eye. The Rigzone Team extracts this information
for you and provides it to you in an easy-to-access geographical and tabular format
in GOMExplorer. MMS plan data includes:
- Upcoming Drilling Programs - Find out about upcoming exploratory and development
drilling programs by operator, water depth, and date.
- Upcoming Pipelay Work - Find out which operators plan to lay pipelines. Detailed
information on operator, block, and water depth provided.
- Upcoming Platform Installations - Find out detailed information about future
platform installations including planned date of installation, operator, block,
and water depth.
- Upcoming Production Start-ups - Plans indicate a forecasted date for production
start-up which can be used by sales to determine important field development events.
Operator Plans Screenshots
Plans Map:
The following map contains three interesting layers of information including future
platform installations, future pipeline installations, and future drilling plans.
You can easily view this information in the map view or toggle to report view for
more information.
Future Pipeline Installations Report:
Each map layer has an associated report that can be viewed in your web browser or
exported to Excel. The following screenshot illustrates a report of planned pipeline
and flowing installations. Using GOMExplorer you can get advance notice of up to
3 years.
Plan Details:
From the map view or report view you can drill down into the details of each plan.
The following plan was filed by Murphy Oil and contains details to drill and complete
the Medusa well no. 5 with a subsea wellhead. Then Murphy plans to reroute the existing
flowlines to well no. 5. Finally, production will begin from no. 5 on May 1, 2008.
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