Conoco permits new NPR-A well

Petroleum News

ConocoPhillips Alaska has permitted a new well in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the Carbon No. 1. The well is proposed as an almost vertical hole in section 4, township 10 north, range 1 east, Umiat Meridian, some five miles north-northwest of ConocoPhillips’ Spark discovery well, one of five wells and one sidetrack ConocoPhillips and partner Anadarko Petroleum announced as discoveries in May 2001.

All of the discoveries were in the Alpine producing horizon, the companies said. Spark was the well with the sidetrack, so both Spark No. 1 and Spark No. 1A were listed as discoveries. The companies said they did extensive testing at the Spark drilling location, and the Spark No. 1A well tested 1,550 barrels per day of liquid hydrocarbons and 26.5 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.