Fabrication of the offshore platform for Furie Operating Alaska's Kitchen Lights gas field in Cook Inlet is nearing completion, Damon Kade, president of Furie, told Petroleum News in a May 2 email. The platform, the Kitchen Lights unit Platform A, is scheduled to be loaded onto a barge at Ingleside, Texas, at the end of May for shipment to Alaska -  the platform is expected to arrive in Cook Inlet in July, with completion of the offshore installation anticipated in early September, Kade said.<p>
Meantime, land clearing has started at the site of Furie's planned gas processing facility near East Forelands on the Kenai Peninsula. A twin subsea pipeline will connect the offshore platform to the processing facility, which will feed gas into the Kenai Peninsula gas pipeline system.<p>
Outfitting of the vessels and barges needed to install the platform and lay the pipelines is under way in Washington state, Kade said. The vessels and barges will start arriving in Cook Inlet in June, he said. The platform will be located about 10 miles north of Boulder Point, near Nikiski, on the Kenai Peninsula.<p>
Furie has previously said that it anticipates that gas production from Kitchen Light will start in the third quarter of 2014.<p>
- Alan Bailey<p>
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