DOG approves Kitchen Lights unit plan

Alaska’s Division of Oil and Gas has approved Furie Operating Alaska’s plan of operations for the company’s gas platform in the Kitchen Lights unit in the Cook Inlet. Damon Kade, president of Furie, has told Petroleum News that the platform is now en route to Alaska, having been loaded on a barge and departed Ingleside, Texas, on June 4. The transit time to Cook Inlet should be around 50 days, Kade said.

Designated Kitchen Lights unit Platform A, the platform will be located in the inlet, about 10 miles north of Boulder Point, near Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula. The platform is of monopod design, with a single 18-foot diameter caisson supporting the platform deck and facilities.

Twin gas gathering pipelines will connect the platform to an onshore gas processing facility near East Foreland, on the peninsula. Apparently Furie plans to install one of the lines this year, with completion of that line anticipated by the end of September 2014. Furie has already started clearing the site of the onshore facility - the plan of operations says that the facility will be completed by the end of October 2014, with production from the platform expected to start in late 2014.

According to the plan, Furie anticipates initial gas production of up to 200 million cubic feet per day from the Kitchen Lights unit, for delivery into the Southcentral Alaska gas distribution system. Development of the unit is anticipated to result in the production of up to 30 billion cubic feet per year of gas. Initial production will come from the Kitchen Lights unit No. 3 well, with the possibility of up to six wells being drilled to maximize production, the plan says.

- Alan Bailey