Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: Boundary of Lafourche Parish and Jefferson Parish, Southeast Louisiana area, USA
Reserves: Unknown
Area: 14,653 net acres
Water Depth: 15,000 feet
Start-up Year: -
The Bay de Chene field is one of two fields in the Southeast Louisiana area. Swift Energy has the operatorship of the field with 100% interest. The field is located along the common boundary of Lafourche Parish and Jefferson Parish, it is an inland-water field that produces liquids-rich reserves from multiple stacked Miocene sand layers radiating outward and downward from the surface of a centrally located salt dome. Drilling and completion operations in the field, which is highly faulted, are conducted from barge-based rigs.
Swift acquired 100% working interests in the field in late 2004 and early 2005, initially shutting in the field for an infrastructure upgrade program that was immediately expanded to include repairs of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. By the time Swift initiated an exploitation program in 2006, the field was covered by a new proprietary geosciences database we had developed for this area. Drilling continued into 2008 to depths of approximately 15,000 feet, but because of heavy infrastructure damage by Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike, all production was shut in.
High-pressure gas production was restored in late 2008 and oil and low-pressure production was restored in mid-2009 following the construction of a new production processing facility. Drilling in Bay de Chene was not resumed in 2010 or 2011, primarily because of the strategic decision to focus on drilling horizontal wells in our South Texas area; however, drilling projects are included in our 2012 to 2014 drilling program for the Southeast Louisiana area. At year-end 2011, Swift owned drilling and production rights in 14,653 net acres in Bay de Chene. Swift was later renamed SilverBow Resources.
Operator:
SilverBow Resources (Operator with 100% interest)