Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Nicholas Pope – J.P. Morgan.
Nicholas Pope – J.P. Morgan
A quick question about the platforms that were damaged during the hurricanes. Are there any plans, I know at least one is missing. Is that right? Are there any plans to reconstruct the platforms that have been significantly damaged at this point or is it that far along yet?
Richard Adkerson
The six platforms have minor reserves and production, and they will be dismantled. We're assessing exactly how to do that, working with MNS. The six that were severely damaged won't come back on stream.
Nicholas Pope – J.P. Morgan
With the South Timbalier wells, a lot of discussion there, but has there been any indication about the potential productivity of the sand at this point, or have you been able to make that determination yet?
James Moffett
I'm going to make some guarded comments because of the industry confidentiality. We're trying to continue to drill as much as we can and still tell you what's going on. Sands that we have logged, all the logged caches are highly carbon reservoirs, so that's why we call these zones potential hydrocarbon zones.
You have [inaudible], all of those things that indicated by logging houses that these are reservoirs that have sand, porosity and they've got hydrocarbons in them but they wouldn't have them highly distributed.
Operator
Your next question comes from Noel Parks – Ladenburg Thalmann & Co.
Noel Parks – Ladenburg Thalmann & Co.
It was very interesting to hear the discussion of the wedge model which if I understood it right is the flank for some of these structures are thicker than the center of the structure, and also an analogy that I can pick up from what's in the deep water. If you compare this to your idea of what the total company potential is after the merger from last year and apply this extra piece of the puzzle of what you've seen in the deep water, can you give us some sense of how many prospects or how many other sections of the Gulf that you think you might try to expand this thinking on to, above and beyond what you've had for a long time as far as the deeper pool concept.
James Moffett
We have numerous blocks, about ten, prospects that have been identified and may have been publicized in the Treasure Bay. This being the first well drilled in the middle of this ultra deep clay on the shelf, and remember the shelf you have to kind of spend a minute. The shelf as we refer to it today, is today's shelf. The Miocene shelf that was responsible for the deposition of the deep sands on the shelf was back up on the coast of Louisiana, actually north of [Avondale] and just south of Lafayette, coming in north of New Orleans.
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