Ultradeepwater Wilcox oil production began with the 2010 ... completion tools to combine and stimulate lower-permeability Wilcox sand intervals while isolating shale in a single well.

Drilled to about 10,500 feet, the Sockeye-2 well “encountered a high-quality reservoir with approximately 25 feet of net oil pay in one blocky, Paleocene-aged sand with an average porosity of 20 ...

The well found about 25 feet (7.6 metres) of net oil pay “in one block, Paleocene-aged sand with an average ... the porosity and permeability are both better than expected, with the permeability ...