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August ANS production up 9% from July
Average of 454,602 bpd up from 416,357 in July, when Colville down almost 3 weeks for planned maintenance; Cook Inlet holds steady Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Alaska North Slope crude oil and natural gas liquids production averaged 454,602 barrels per day in August, up 33,523 bpd, 9.2 percent, from a July average of 416,357 bpd and down 3.5 percent from 470,972 bpd in August 2017.
Production data is from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which provides volumes by field, pool and well on a month-delay basis.
The largest month-over-month increase was at the ConocoPhillips Alaska-operated Colville River field, which was down for maintenance for almost three weeks in July and for the better part of two weeks in August, starting up Aug. 13 at 3,801 bpd.
The field averaged 41,565 bpd in August, compared to 24,013 bpd in July, an increase of 73.1 percent, 17,552 bpd, but still down substantially from June when it averaged 62,638. August production was down 37.7 percent from August 2017, when the field averaged 66,730 bpd.
In addition to oil from the main Alpine pool, Colville production includes satellite production from Fiord, Nanuq and Qannik.
The Hilcorp Alaska-operated Milne Point field averaged 22,172 bpd in August, up 27.8 percent, 4,826 bpd, from a July average of 17,346 bpd, and also up - by 9.3 percent - from an August 2017 average of 20,294 bpd.
The ConocoPhillips-operated Kuparuk River field averaged 109,407 bpd in August, up 7 percent, 7,133 bpd, from an average of 102,274 bpd in July, and also up, by 1.9 percent, from an August 2017 average of 107,377 bpd.
In addition to the main Kuparuk pool, Kuparuk volumes include production from satellites at Meltwater, Tabasco and Tarn, and from West Sak.
Prudhoe up 4 percent The BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Prudhoe Bay field averaged 234, 986 bpd (195,571 bpd of crude oil and 39,415 bpd of NGLs), up 4 percent, 8,966 bpd, from a July combined average of 226,020, and up 5.8 percent from an August 2017 combined average of 222,063 bpd.
Volumes shown for Prudhoe include: Aurora, Borealis, Lisburne, Midnight Sun, Niakuk, Polaris, Point McIntyre, Put River, Raven and Schrader Bluff.
The Hilcorp-operated Endicott field averaged 7,517 bpd (6,770 bpd of crude and 747 bpd of NGLs) in August, up 3.4 percent, 249 bpd, from a combined July total of 7,268, and up 16.7 percent from an August 2017 combined total of 6,444 bod.
Northstar, also operated by Hilcorp, averaged 9,447 bpd in August (7,877 bpd of crude and 1,570 bpd of NGLs), up 1 percent from a July average of 9,351 bpd combined and up 17.3 percent from an August 2017 combined average of 8,055 bpd.
Production from the Caelus Alaska-operated Oooguruk field averaged 9,699 bpd, basically flat from July production of 9,696 bpd, but down 18.8 percent from August 2017 production of 11,948 bpd.
Badami down 8% Badami, operated by Glacier Oil and Gas subsidiary Savant Alaska, averaged 1,708 bpd in August, down 8.3 percent, 154 bpd, from a July average of 1,862 bpd, but up 99.8 percent from an August 2017 average of 855 bpd.
Eni-operated Nikaitchuq averaged 17,933 bpd, down 2.8 percent, 521 bpd, from a July average of 18,454, and down 12.1 percent from an August 2017 average of 20,391 bpd.
Production from the ExxonMobil Production-operated Point Thomson field averaged 96 bpd in August, up 33.3 percent from a July average of 71 bpd, but down 98.6 percent from an August 2017 average of 6,814 bpd.
Point Thomson has basically been down due to compressor issues - it produced only one day in August and one day in July; in August 2017 the field produced for 11 days.
Cook Inlet Cook Inlet production averaged 14,929 bpd in August, up 0.2 percent, 25 bpd, from a July average of 14,904, and up 1.6 percent from an August 2017 average of 14,700.
Hilcorp-operated McArthur River, Cook Inlet’s largest field, averaged 4,984 bpd in August, up 4.6 percent, 219 bpd, from a July average of 4,765 but down 1.4 percent from an August 2017 average of 5,056 bpd.
Granite Point, also Hilcorp-operated, averaged 2,730 bpd in August, down 4.1 percent, 116 bpd, from a July average of 2,846, but up 17.6 percent from an August 2017 average of 2,322 bpd.
Hilcorp’s Middle Ground Shoal averaged 1,555 bpd in August, up 27.6 percent, 336 bpd, from a July average of 1,219; the field had no production in August 2017.
Trading Bay, also operated by Hilcorp, averaged 1,417 bpd in August, down 8.8 percent, 137 bpd, from a July average of 1,554, and down 29.2 percent from an August 2017 average of 2,001 bpd.
Hilcorp’s Swanson River averaged 1,335 bpd in August, up 3.5 percent, 45 bpd, from a July average of 1,290 bpd, but down 25.6 percent from an August 2017 average of 1,795 bpd.
Redoubt Shoal, operated by Glacier Oil and Gas, averaged 1,271 bpd in August, down 1.3 percent, 16 bpd, from a July average of 1,287, and down 27.7 percent from an August 2017 average of 1,759 bpd.
Glacier’s West McArthur River averaged 882 bpd in August, down 11.3 percent, 112 bpd, from a July average of 994 bpd, and down 29.2 percent from an August 2017 average of 1,246 bpd.
BlueCrest’s Hansen field, the Cosmopolitan project, averaged 686 bpd in August, down 20.7 percent, 179 bpd, from a July average of 865, but up 99.4 percent from an August 2017 average of 344 bpd.
Hilcorp’s Beaver Creek averaged 69 bpd in August, down 18.3 percent, 15 bpd, from a July average of 84 bpd, and down 96.8 percent from an August 2017 average of 177 bpd.
ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at 2.1 million bpd; Cook Inlet crude oil production peaked in 1970 at more than 227,000 bpd.
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