Petroleum News Alaska North Slope oil gas Cook Inlet
WEBAugust ANS production down 3.8% from July - 10/06/2024 (Login to read Full story) Alaska North Slope production averaged 430,047 barrels per day in August, down 17,087 bpd, 3.82%, from a July average of 447,134 bpd, but up 1.28%, 5,428 bpd, from an August 2023 average of 424,619 bpd. Crude averaged 387,824 bpd, 90.18% of Slope production, down 12,042 bpd, 3.01%, from a July aver....
Kuparuk: Rigs down right now, but Conoco’s goal 25 more years
WEBKuparuk: Rigs down right now, but Conoco’s goal 25 more years. Kristen Nelson. ConocoPhillips Alaska, operator of the North Slope’s second largest field, Kuparuk, prefaces its newly filed Kuparuk unit plan of development with a warning that the plan was “envisioned prior to COVID-19 and the market downturn.”
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BP’s Thunder Horse oil field goes online - Petroleum News
WEBThe BP-operated Thunder Horse field, the largest-ever oil discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, is finally onstream and headed toward higher production following repeated startup delays dating back to 2005. First oil was achieved June 14 from a single well, BP confirmed. “We have a lot yet to do as...
Producers 2019: Hilcorp: Titan of Cook Inlet producers
WEBThe Cook Inlet basin is the cradle of the modern oil and gas industry in Alaska. In 1957, Richfield Oil Corp. discovered oil when it tapped the Hemlock formation with the Swanson River No. 1 well. The Swanson River oil field convinced a divided Congress that the oil industry could provide the econom...
2nd well goes into production on Alaska’s reborn Osprey platform
WEBOsprey’s revival continues. Anchorage-based Cook Inlet Energy LLC, the operator of the offshore platform in Alaska’s Redoubt unit, has succeeded in bringing a second shut-in well back into production. The RU-7 well is the second to be activated recently on the Osprey platform, which was in “lighthou...
WEB2 PETROLEUM NEWS † WEEK OF MAY 26, 2024 contents Petroleum News Alaska’s source for oil and gas news l EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION Mustang developed by small independent First Alaska North Slope oil field to be taken from discovery to production by a small independent, Brooks Range Petroleum Corp.
Exploring east - September 24, 2023 - Petroleum News
WEBExploring east Santos, Apache, Armstrong cut deal on 270,000-acre E. North Slope block Kay Cashman. Petroleum News. Consistent with its Alaska strategy to focus on the Pikka development west of the central North Slope, Santos said Sept. 19 that it will "farm-down" half of its working interest in 148 state of Alaska exploration leases on the eastern North Slope in an agreement with APA Corp.'s ...
DNR posts new North Slope, Cook Inlet activity maps
WEBThe latest North Slope and Cook Inlet oil and gas activity maps were recently posted on the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas website (see maps in pdf and print versions of this story). Both maps are dated December 2023 but were released in January 2024 in legislative h...
Petroleum News Alaska North Slope oil gas Cook Inlet
WEBThis month in history: 21st Point Thomson plan in to state - 09/29/2024 (Login to read Full story) Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Sept. 26, 2004, issue of Petroleum News. The Point Thomson unit owners will share results of evaluation of all potential hydrocarbon resources with the state of Alaska during the unit's 2004-05 plan year, but the unit's 21st development and ...