Assets

The test of Cobalt’s business model is taking place today at the frontiers of oil exploration.

In the 2007 and 2008 U.S. Gulf of Mexico lease sales, Cobalt captured a substantial and highly prospective acreage position, locking up a 10-year controlling position in high potential deepwater, sub-salt exploration plays in the ‘heart’ of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico’s deepwater Miocene and inboard Lower Tertiary trends. Cobalt has spent more than $600 million to build this portfolio of opportunity. In only three years Cobalt established itself as major player in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Cobalt is also an early entrant in offshore West Africa’s highly potential and enormous pre-salt opportunity through the focused capture of a significant acreage position in Gabon and Angola. Offshore West Africa is an area where Cobalt team members have vast experience in hydrocarbon exploration, development and production.