|
Alaska North Slope oil production flat from January to February
Alaska North Slope production for February averaged 730,727 barrels per day, basically level with January’s 730,337 bpd, up just 0.05 percent.
Production from the BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Endicott field averaged 47, 295 bpd in February, up 3.5 percent from a January average of 45,698 bpd. Endicott includes some 33,000 bpd of Prudhoe Bay Flow Station 2 oil.
Production from the BP-operated Prudhoe Bay field averaged 327,444 bpd in February, up 1.8 percent from a January average of 321,693 bpd. Prudhoe Bay production includes the Aurora, Borealis, Midnight Sun, Orion and Polaris satellites; some 400-600 bpd from Lisburne and Point McIntyre.
The ConocoPhillips Alaska-operated Kuparuk River field averaged 150,618 bpd in February, up 0.8 percent from a January average of 149,405 bpd. Kuparuk production includes Tabasco, Tarn, Meltwater and West Sak.
Northstar, Alpine, Lisburne, Milne Point down Production from the BP-operated Northstar field averaged 33,410 bpd in February, down 0.1 percent from a January average of 33,442 bpd.
The ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine field (including production from Fiord and Nanuq) averaged 105,165 bpd in February, down 4 percent from a January average of 109,557 bpd.
BP-operated Lisburne, including Point McIntyre and Niakuk, averaged 34,101 bpd in February, down 4.2 percent from a January average of 35,576 bpd.
BP’s Milne Point field, which includes Sag River and Schrader Bluff production, averaged 32,694 bpd in February, down 6.5 percent from a January average of 34,966 bpd.
All Cook Inlet production averaged 13,076 bpd in February, down 2.1 percent from a January average of 13,358 bpd.
The February temperature at Pump Station 1 on the North Slope averaged minus 14.3 degrees F, compared to minus 16.9 F in January.
—Kristen Nelson
|
