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January 2011

Vol. 16, No. 5 Week of January 30, 2011

CIE gets KPB nod for Stingray program

Cook Inlet Energy’s proposal to drill up to three onshore exploration wells on the west side of the Cook Inlet this winter passed a local regulatory hurdle in late December.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Coastal District determined on Dec. 23 that the proposed Stingray project is consistent with the KPB Coastal Zone Management Program.

Cook Inlet Energy, the local subsidiary of Tennessee-based independent Miller Petroleum, plans to drill and test up to three exploratory natural gas wells this winter on the West Foreland peninsula near the Trading Bay Production Facility.

The project includes up to three temporary drill sites and a mile of snow roads.

Cook Inlet Energy hopes to complete its program by the end of March.

Cook Inlet Energy previously told the state that it plans to use Miller Rig No. 34, an Atlas Copco RD-20 rig, for the program. The first well in the program, Stingray No. 1, would be a 2,000- and 2,500-foot vertical well to test a target in the Beluga sands.

—Eric Lidji






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