A testament to technology and vision Company completes successful Liza 1 well offshore Guyana.
Jeff Simons heads the company’s venture office in Georgetown, Guyana.
The data from the well logs looked promising, and a re-
of the Liza 1 well since crews started drilling in March. “A small team worked more than a year designing and executing a plan that had now brought us to the brink of what could be a major discovery,” says Moreland, who began her career with the company in 2005 after graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in geophysics. “The sus- pense and excitement continued
to grow by the hour as the drill bit approached the top of the pre- dicted reservoir section.” While the team in Houston prepared to analyze the real-time results soon to come, Moreland boarded a flight to Guyana early the morning of Monday, May 4, to be at the well site the moment the first results came in. “When I finally arrived in Georgetown, the drillers had just entered the reservoir section some
strained optimism began to build among small groups of specialists at the company’s north Houston campus, at its Georgetown ven- ture office, and aboard the drill- ship Deepwater Champion 120 miles off the coast of the South American nation of Guyana. Kerry Moreland and a team of other ExxonMobil geoscientists had been tracking the progress
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Story by Bob Davis
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