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May 2007

Vol. 12, No. 19 Week of May 13, 2007

BP begins application process for Beaufort Liberty prospect

Originally BP planned to develop its Beaufort Sea Liberty prospect as a Northstar look-a-like, with an offshore island.

In 2005 the company began talking publicly about a revised plan to develop Liberty with extended reach drilling from shore, with wells reaching from four and a half to as far as eight miles.

Earlier this year BP said it would develop Liberty from existing facilities at Endicott, eight miles to the west.

The first of the applications for the revised project are out for review.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has posted BP Exploration (Alaska)’s request for expansion of the existing Endicott secondary drilling island by approximately 20 acres of fill in marine waters and approximately 18 acres of fill associated with a gravel mine site adjacent to the existing Duck Island mine site and approximately 0.3 acre of impact for a boat launch at the Endicott main production island. The Corps said placement of any potential fill associated with a new bridge across the West Channel of the Sagavanirktok River will be reviewed as a modification under an existing Corps permit or under a Corps nationwide permit.

The existing Endicott SDI is almost square; the expansion would create an L-shaped island. The proposed Sag River bridge would replace an existing bridge between Deadhorse and Endicott.

The agency said the development plan would be available on the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas Web site and on the U.S. Minerals Management Service Alaska OCS region Web site.

The Corps said the Liberty development plan is a considerable modification of a 2002 proposal, which included a 23-acre island and 6.1 miles of buried pipeline and a new gravel mine site. A new National Environmental Policy Act analysis will be completed for the new project and the Corps said BP has prepared an environmental impact assessment to provide agencies with information for review.

—Kristen Nelson






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