The state has approved an amended development plan for the Kitchen Lights unit that could lead to an exploration well into the Jurassic at the offshore Cook Inlet unit.
The amended plan of development calls for operator Furie Operating Alaska LLC to drill either the Kitchen Lights Unit No. 4 or Kitchen Lights Unit No. 6-Deep Jurassic well by the end of the year. The amendment keeps an earlier provision, requiring the company to complete the Kitchen Lights Unit No. A1 well in the Corsair block by Nov. 30.
The original plan of development that Furie submitted to the state Division of Oil and Gas in October 2016 called for completing the KLU No. A1 well and either drilling a new development well in the Corsair block or re-entering the existing KLU No. 4 well, which is located in the North block (Kitchen Lights has four exploration blocks.).
The newly proposed KLU No. 6-Deep Jurassic well would be located in the Corsair block on ADL 389198. The proposed location is different from a KLU No. 6 well included in earlier plans. The old KLU No. 6 well has now been renamed KLU No. 13.
In pervious plans, Furie said it would drill the KLU No. 4 well to a depth capable of targeting the Sunfish Channel of the lower Tyonek formation. The company drilled and completed the well in the Northern block of the unit in 2013 and 2014 and said that the well “encountered potential oil and gas reserves.” The company proposed deepening the well to target the Sunfish Channel in its previous plan of development in late 2015.
Earlier this year, Senior Vice President Bruce Webb said that Furie planned to drill the proposed KLU No.6-Deep Jurassic well to a depth of more than 20,000 feet using the Randolf Yost jack-up drilling rig, after the rig completing work on the KLU No. A1 well.
The Kitchen Lights unit is currently producing from two wells - the recently completed KLU No. A2-A well and the KLU No. 3 discovery well. The company needs to complete the KLU No. A1 well under the terms of a supply agreement with Enstar Natural Gas Co.
In pursuing new exploration, the amended plan of development drops a plan to complete a fourth development well at the Corsair block. The proposed well would have been drilled to the stratigraphic equivalent of the Sterling flow-tested zones in KLU No. 3.
- ERIC LIDJI
