ExxonMobil Production Company announced that it has resumed drilling on two wells started earlier this year at Point Thomson and is on schedule to reach total depth by year-end 2010. The company drilled each of the wells, PTU-15 and PTU-16, to approximately 5,000 feet during the summer, as deep as possible during the ice-free season. Drilling into deeper formations is permitted only during the period November 1 through April 15.