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Vol. 20, No. 21 Week of May 24, 2015
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

Svenja arrives for Furie

Heavy lift vessel preparing for Kitchen Lights production platform installation

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

The MV Svenja heavy lift vessel arrived in Homer on the weekend of May 16-17, in preparation for the installation of Furie Operating Alaska’s Kitchen Lights gas production platform, offshore in Cook Inlet, Bruce Webb, Furie senior vice president, told Petroleum News in a May 18 email. The vessel should move to the platform location, over the Kitchen Lights No. 3 well, on May 19, Webb said. After setting anchor at the Kitchen Lights location, the Svenja’s first task will be to set in place the seafloor template used to position the platform.

Furie said it anticipates the platform itself arriving from Seattle by barge around May 22 or 23. The platform has been staged in Seattle over the winter. The company said it currently anticipates setting the platform’s monopod leg in position about June 5, with the topside of the platform being placed on the monopod about July 7. The platform will be located about 10 miles northwest of Boulder Point, near Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula.

Pipe laying under way

The laying of the subsea pipeline that will transport natural gas from the platform to shore has already started - Webb said that to date about two miles of the pipeline have been laid. Furie’s Spartan 151 jack-up drilling rig has been positioned offshore the land-based Kitchen Lights gas processing facility, in readiness to assist with the operation of pulling the gas pipeline though a borehole under the coastal bluffs, to emerge in the facility.

Construction of the processing facility, near East Foreland on the Kenai Peninsula, is nearing completion.

Initial development of the Kitchen Lights field will use the Kitchen Lights No. 3 well that Furie drilled in 2013 in the Corsair block of the Kitchen Lights unit using the Spartan 151 jack-up rig. Furie hopes to secure gas supply contracts that would support an initial production rate of 85 million cubic feet per day, although the field is apparently capable of significantly higher rates than that. Furie’s development plan envisages the eventual laying of two gas pipelines from the field, with each line having a maximum capacity of 100 million cubic feet per day.



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