Marathon applies to expand gas field pad on Kenai Peninsula

Company continuing in-fill drilling program at Kenai gas field, in production since 1961

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

Marathon Oil Co. continues to look for gas at its Kenai gas field, an onshore Cook Inlet basin field which has been in production for more than 40 years. In late July the company applied to expand Pad 41-18 at the field by 5.9 acres so that up to five additional wells can be drilled from the pad an....

    [additional news subjects in this story]

This pad’s first well drilled in 1971

First of new wells would be drilled this year

New control building will also be built