ASRC Exploration LLC, AEX, has submitted a third plan of development for its North Slope Placer unit, and told the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas in the June 11 submittal that its 2018-19 plan includes analysis of Brooks Range Petroleum Corp.'s proposed Southern Miluveach unit early production facility for potentially putting Placer into production in 2019-20. <p>
Placer and the Southern Miluveach unit are not adjacent but are close, both on the western edge of the Kuparuk River unit. <p>
In May the division approved a plan filed by Southern Miluveach unit operator BRPC to install a temporary production facility at the Mustang field to allow some early oil production to begin, potentially in October of this year, prior to permanent production facilities going into operation.<p>
AEX told the division in its June filing that part of its proposed POD is to progress a memorandum of understanding "with adjacent operators for joint Kuparuk C development and facility access."<p>
AEX said facility access is an issue on the North Slope and said "Placer is an ideal candidate to explore alternative facility access approaches" as its size does not warrant single-owner facilities. <p>
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