November ANS crude production down 2% 12/05/2010
Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 631,537 barrels per day in November, down 1.9 percent from an October average of 644,022 bpd. Department of Revenue data for November show the largest...

The Explorers 2010: Savant Alaska 11/14/2010
Savant has spent its entire tenure in Alaska focused on the eastern North Slope. The local subsidiary of Denver-based independent Savant Resources picked up leases in Foggy Island Bay in 2006. Savant...

Savant announces restart at Badami 11/14/2010
Oil has started flowing again from the field following the drilling of a horizontal sidetrack and an exploration well last winter
The Badami oil field, the most easterly of the developed fields on Alaska's North Slope, went back into production on Nov. 5, Greg Vigil, an executive of Savant Resources, told Petroleum News. Savant...

Big Risk, Bigger Rewards: Savant ahead of schedule at Badami 02/14/2010
Denver independent has completed ice road in preparation for completing Red Wolf well and drilling Badami horizontal sidetrack
Savant Alaska has completed its 27.5-mile ice road from the eastern end of the North Slope road system to the Badami field, in preparation for the company's winter drilling program at Badami, Savant e...

Good news at Badami? 02/07/2010
Savant exec guarded until data further analyzed, but two pay zones possible
While the company remains somewhat guarded about revealing results until it gleans more information from well logs, rumors of a significant hydrocarbon discovery from a well Savant Alaska completed dr...

Savant ahead of schedule 12/20/2009
Vigil: ACES works for small explorers, producers; hires lobbyist to make sure Alaska legislators aware of independent's position
Savant Alaska is ahead of schedule on the construction of its ice road to the eastern North Slope's Badami unit, where the company plans to finish an oil exploration well it began last winter. The wel...

Savant reacquires Beaufort Sea acreage 11/08/2009
Vancouver, B.C.-based Enterprise Energy Resources Ltd. has agreed to sell all the shares of its wholly owned subsidiary Bordeaux Alaska Holdings Inc. to Denver-based Savant Alaska LLC for US$700,000,...

BP to keep Badami idle another year; reservoir failed to recharge 08/23/2009
Don't look for BP to restart production from its troublesome Badami oil field anytime soon. In an Aug. 14 status report to the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, BP said it will submit an application to...

Savant aims to finish Badami well 08/09/2009
Denver independent also hopes to drill sidetrack this winter as part of BP farmout agreement
Savant Alaska will resume drilling this winter in the difficult Badami unit on Alaska's North Slope, the company's general manager confirmed. Deteriorating weather conditions cut short the last winter...

Moving on Liberty 05/03/2009
SDI, river bridge upgrade and drilling rig construction near completion
After years of planning and design there are now tangible signs on the ground of progress towards first oil from BP's 100 million-barrel Liberty field, offshore in the Beaufort Sea, about 15 miles eas...

End of the start of Badami restart 04/19/2009
Savant nears completion of first Badami well, outlines strategy for restarting plant, praises ACES credits, touts cooperation
Savant Alaska hopes to finish its first well at the Badami unit by the end of April. The local subsidiary of Denver independent Savant Resources is drilling the B 1-38 exploration well at the North Sl...

Savant nears end of 1st Badami well; expects to finish in April 04/12/2009
Savant Alaska hopes to finish its first well at the Badami unit by the end of April. The local subsidiary of Denver independent Savant Resources is drilling the B 1-38 exploration well at the North Sl...

AOGCC issues Badami drilling permit 02/08/2009
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission issued a permit on Jan. 28 for Savant Alaska LLC to drill the Badami Unit B1-38 exploration well on the eastern North Slope. Savant proposes to start the...

Might revisit Liberty area leases 01/18/2009
Denver-based Savant Resources, which entered Alaska in 2006, drilled an unsuccessful exploration well on its own lease in the Beaufort Sea last winter. Subsidiary Savant Alaska's geologic target was t...

Savant accelerates Badami drilling plan 01/18/2009
Incentives in ACES, Alaska's new production tax system, behind its investment in North Slope exploration, development
Savant Alaska isn't waiting until 2010 to complete two wells in the eastern North Slope's Badami unit - a commitment operator BP made to the State of Alaska last year as part of its seventh plan of de...

The Explorers 2008: Savant and ASRC taking on Badami 11/23/2008
Denver independent will operate, while Alaska's larger private company expands its portfolio
The maturation of the North Slope is all about companies bringing new ideas to bear on overlooked projects, and that dynamic could come into play this winter at Badami. Through a series of business ar...

Savant and ASRC taking on Badami 10/26/2008
Reprint from upcoming The Explorers magazine: Denver independent will operate, Alaska Native corp. expands portfolio
The maturation of the North Slope is all about companies bringing new ideas to bear on overlooked projects, and that dynamic could come into play this winter at Badami. Through a series of business ar...

BP, Savant get go ahead on Badami; ASRC joins project 08/03/2008
The state recently approved a plan to restart the shut-in Badami field on the North Slope. The plan of development gives BP and Savant Alaska until Sept. 30, 2009, to drill an exploration well at Bad...