ANS production down at year end
Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Alaska North Slope oil production ended the year at an average of 755,807 barrels per day — down 1.1 percent since November, when the daily average was 764,525. It’s also a drop from a year ago: ANS production for December 2006 averaged 808,129 bpd.
Kuparuk and Lisburne had slight production increases in December over November; production was down at all other fields.
BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Lisburne, which includes Niakuk, averaged 34,526 bpd, up 1.43 percent from a November average of 34,040 bpd.
Kuparuk River, which includes production from Tabasco, Tarn, Meltwater and West Sak, averaged 153,162 bpd, up 1.13 percent from a November average of 151,451 bpd. Kuparuk is operated by ConocoPhillips Alaska.
Most fields down BP-operated Endicott (including Sag Delta, Eider, Badami and approximately 33,000 bpd of Prudhoe Bay Flow Station 2 oil) averaged 43,371 bpd in December, down 10.3 percent from a November average of 48,369 bpd.
BP’s Milne Point field averaged 34,515 bpd in December, down 5.8 percent from a November average of 36,637 bpd. Milne Point production includes Sag River and Schrader Bluff.
Production from Alpine, operated by ConocoPhillips, averaged 116,205 bpd in December, a drop of 1.6 percent from a November average of 118,061 bpd; Alpine includes Fiord and Nanuq.
BP-operated Prudhoe Bay averaged 337,490 bpd in December, down 0.5 percent from a November average of 339,255 bpd. Prudhoe production includes satellite production from Aurora, Borealis, Midnight Sun, Orion, Polaris; some 400-600 bpd of Lisburne production; and production from Point McIntyre.
The greater Prudhoe Bay field, which includes Lisburne and the 33,000 bpd currently coming through the Endicott pipeline, averaged 405,016 bpd in December, down 0.3 percent from a November average of 406,295 bpd.
BP-operated Northstar averaged 36,538 bpd, down 0.5 percent from a November average of 36,712 bpd.
The temperature at Pump Station 1 averaged minus 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit in December, compared to a five-year average of minus 2.8 degrees F.
Elsewhere in Alaska, Cook Inlet production averaged 15,515 bpd in December, up 2.9 percent from a November average of 15,073 bpd.
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