Forest Oil requests expanded injection at Cook Inlet Redoubt Shoal unit

Forest Oil Corp. wants to expand enhanced recovery injection at its Redoubt unit in Cook Inlet.

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said Forest has requested an expansion of Enhanced Recovery Injection Order No. 2 from a single-well pilot project to full-field development to enhance oil recovery operations from the Hemlock formation within the Redoubt unit.

Alternatively Forest has requested a 12-month extension of the existing injection order, from Oct. 1, 2007, to Sept. 30, 2008.

The commission said the proposed development is within portions of township 7 north, ranges 13 and 14 west, Seward Meridian.

A public hearing on the application has been tentatively scheduled for Sept. 13 at 9 a.m. at the commission’s Anchorage office; the commission said that if no request for a hearing is filed, it may issue an order without a hearing.

Written comments are due Sept. 10; if there is a public hearing, written comments will be accepted during that hearing.

Forest said at the end of May that it had reached an agreement to sell its Alaska assets to Pacific Energy Resources Ltd.; the closing date for that sale is Aug. 24.

Redoubt, produced from the Osprey platform, has been in production since 2002; Forest has 100 percent working interest at the unit.

—Kristen Nelson