Chevron Corporation has announced that it started water injection operations at two projects at its Jack/St. Malo and Tahiti facilities in the deep water U.S. Gulf of Mexico, to boost oil and natural gas recovery.

“Delivery of these two projects maximizes returns from our existing resource base and contributes toward growing our production to 300,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by 2026,” said Bruce Niemeyer, president, Chevron Americas Exploration & Production. “These achievements follow the recent production startup at our high-pressure Anchor field, reinforcing Chevron’s position as a leader in technological delivery and project execution in the Gulf.”

Chevron achieved its first water injection at the St. Malo field, the company’s first waterflood project in the deepwater Wilcox trend. The project was delivered under budget, with the addition of water injection facilities, two new production wells, and two new injection wells. It is expected to add approximately 175 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) to the St. Malo field’s gross ultimate recovery.

Since the fields started production in 2014, Jack and St. Malo together have cumulatively produced almost 400 million gross barrels of oil equivalent.

At the Tahiti facility, Chevron started injecting water into its first deepwater Gulf producer-to-injector conversion wells. The project included the installation of a new water injection manifold and 20,000 feet of flexible water injection flowline.

After multiple development projects, the Tahiti facility recently surpassed 500 million gross barrels of oil-equivalent cumulative production.

The company said that it continues to study advanced drilling, completion, and production technologies that could be employed in future development phases at Tahiti and Jack/St. Malo with the potential to further increase recovery from these fields.