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Armstrong gets 2 permits for NFU
Armstrong recently got permits for two exploration wells in Alaska’s Cook Inlet basin.
In mid-August, the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission gave the company permits to drill the North Fork Unit No. 14-25 and the North Fork Unit No. 32-35 wells.
The wells would start at the North Fork Pad, where Armstrong drilled the NFU No. 34-26 well in the summer of 2008. The new wells would branch out in different directions: NFU No. 14-25 to the east and NFU No. 32-35 to the south.
Wells classified as ‘exploratory’ In earlier filings, Armstrong Cook Inlet described the proposed wells as “gas development wells,” but the AOGCC permit classifies the wells as “exploratory.”
The permits list only one of the two wells, NFU No. 32-35, as testing the “undefined gas pool” at North Fork. Armstrong has said it wants to gauge the oil potential of North Fork.
Armstrong drilled NFU No. 34-26 to around 9,000 feet to test the Tyonek formation.
According to the state, Armstrong would drill one of the wells into the deeper, oil-rich Hemlock formation, and then plug it back to produce from the shallower gas sands.
Armstrong is on pace to start natural gas sales in early 2011.
—Eric Lidji
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