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Jack-up Endeavour to dock at Port Graham
Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Buccaneer Alaska Operations has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land and Water for use of half an acre of state subsurface at Port Graham for temporary docking/moorage for the jack-up drilling rig Endeavour — Spirit of Independence.
Andy Rike, Buccaneer Alaska Operation’s executive vice president of operations, said in the company’s application that the rig initially will be at the cannery dock in Port Graham, where the bay bottom is owned by the Port Graham Corp., which provides commercial docking facilities.
After about a month, however, the rig will be moved to the log dock at Port Graham.
“There are two anchorages available in the area,” Rike said, both commercial docks owned by the Port Graham Corp.
“The rig will be docked at the cannery dock as long as available, then moved to the log dock,” he said.
In both cases the rig legs will be lowered to the bay bottom.
At the log dock location, the bay bottom is state land, Rike said in the application.
The duration of the project is listed as Sept. 30 through Dec. 31.
Furie there last year Last year Furie Operating Alaska used Port Graham, an ice-free Cook Inlet port southwest of Homer on the Kenai Peninsula, to over winter the Spartan 151 jack-up rig.
Presumably Furie is using the anchorage at the cannery dock again this winter, and Endeavour will need to be moved to the log dock when the Spartan 151 arrives.
Rike said a moorage agreement was in the process of being executed with PGC Energy Services, a subsidiary of Port Graham Corp.
Both docking sites are adjacent to commercial docking facilities owned and operated by Port Graham Corp., he said, and wastes generated on the rig while at the permit site will be collected by and disposed of by Port Graham Corp. at an approved disposal facility.
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