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Fig. 3. The GOM Shelf records significant drilling above 15,000 ft with less than half of the acreage tested to 18,000 ft and even less acreage is tested below 21,000 ft. Note the cluster of deep tests in the Mobile area (upper right). The deepwater regions of are lightly tested overall with only a few blocks tested below 21,000 ft.

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