Alaminos Canyon

The Alaminos Canyon is an undersea canyon in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Southeast of the coast of Texas.

Oil and gas exploration and production

According to "Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: America's Expanding Frontier", a report issued by the Minerals Management Service Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Alaminos Canyon is one of the deep-water discoveries in water depths greater than 7,000 ft, discovered in 2002.
A world record for deep drilling was set by ChevronTexaco in November 2003, drilling in 10,011 ft . That record was set by Deepwater Nautilus, an ultra-deepwater, column-stabilized, semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit.