These days a lot of Chevron's combined brain and computer power is tuned to peer into the gulf's promising Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend.

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While the Shenandoah appraisal well encountered more than 1, 000 feet of net pay in high-quality Lower Tertiary-aged reservoirs, the Coronado exploration well encountered more than 400 feet of net pay.

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As if anyone had forgotten, discoveries like these show that there remains massive opportunities for oil and gas discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, especially in the so-called Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend, which Chevron says could contain 12 billion barrels.

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Chevron has 100 prospective drilling spots in the Gulf of Mexico, but its highest hopes for a resumption of deepwater drilling lay in an area called the Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend, near where the continental shelf drops off into deep water.

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By shifting more resources to lower levels of education, governments might stimulate more household spending for higher education, without threatening the growth of the tertiary sector.

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