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Vol. 8, No. 47 Week of November 23, 2003
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Evolving technology drives West Sak development

ConocoPhillips sextuples production, doubles length of horizontal laterals

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

Technology is driving the development of West Sak, the billions of barrels of shallow, heavy crude which overlie the deeper Kuparuk River formation at the ConocoPhillips Alaska-operated Kuparuk River field on Alaska’s North Slope. West Sak production averaged some 250 barrels a day per well when pr....

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Dual lateral wells

Final design state at 1J pad

Infrastructure additions needed

A mixture of horizontal wells


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