PGS permitting North Fork 3-D seismic

Hard on the heels of RCA approval of the contract for the supply of North Fork gas to Enstar Natural Gas Co., PGS Onshore is moving ahead with plans to shoot a 3-D seismic survey for Armstrong Cook Inlet in the North Fork area of the southern Kenai Peninsula. The seismic survey is a prelude to the drilling of further gas wells in the North Fork unit.

PGS has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources for an Alaska Coastal Management Program consistency review for the seismic survey; comments on the proposed survey are due by Dec. 7.

According to the ACMP review application the seismic survey will cover an approximately 20-square-mile area that includes the community of Nikolaevsk, on land variously owned by the State of Alaska, Cook Inlet Region Inc., the Kenai Peninsula Borough and several private land owners. PGS has notified the landowners of its intentions.

The survey will take place in winter conditions, between December 2009 and April 2010, with a staging area and project offices being established on the North Fork 46-36 well pad.

—Alan Bailey