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The Atlantis oil field is the third largest oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, estimated at about 600 million barrels (95 million m³). The British energy company BP owns a 56% interest in the field in conjunction with BHP Billiton Petroleum Deepwater which owns a 44 percent interest. [1] The field is expected to produce about 200,000 barrels (32,000 m³) of oil per day and 180 million cubic feet (5,100,000 m³) of gas per day starting in the second half of 2007. [2] The oil field was discovered in 1998 by the Ocean America semi-submersible, mobile drilling rig operating in a water depth of 1870 meters. The field was discovered in 1998 and is located about 130 miles (210 km) from the coastline of Louisiana in 6,500 feet (2,000 m) of water.
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