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Vol. 7, No. 31 Week of August 04, 2002
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Coming on strong

Northstar reservoir performance excellent; BP brought field on slowly to allow pipeline to warm up; production intermittently reduced by facility startup issues

Kristen Nelson

PNA Editor-in-Chief

The wells at Northstar are coming on at high rates of production, which is just what BP expected, says Fritz Gunkel, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.’s Northstar delivery manager. “We’ve had wells come on at 24,000 barrels a day,” he said, and Northstar has had wells among BP’s top 10 producers worldwi....

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