Smith Bay: Another Elephant I Had Not Heard Of -- March 15, 2017

Bloomberg has the story; it's a "fun read."

• Jim Musselman, Texas wildcatter
• his first elephant: 1999, off the coast of West Africa; sold his company to Hess Corp for $3.2 billion
• another elephant: 2007, off the coast of Ghana; worth at least $4 billion to Exxon
• forms a new company after the Ghana chapter: Caelus (named for the Roman sky god)
• discovered another elephant, this time, North Slope, Alaska: Smith Bay
• Smith Bay: 150 miles west of Prudhoe Bay
• the shallow estuary could yield 6 billion bbls; the nearby tundra could yield 4 billion more
• Caelus plans to drill a $100 million test well
• Musselman hopes to turn Smith Bay into another Prudhoe Bay
• challenges: 
• North Slope Alaska oil -- $50/bbl to break-even (compare with $20/bbl in the Bakken)
• another 150-mile pipeline to connect with the Trans Alaska Pipeline 
• last year: TAP -- 515,000 bopd flowed in 2015; a quarter of the amount that flowed 30 years ago 

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