NEWS BULLETIN September 22, 2003 --- Vol. 9, No. 91 September 2003 ANWR makes it into draft federal energy bill North Slope crude and liquid natural gas production averaged 949,809 barrels a day in September, down 7.96 percent from an average of 1,031,904 barrels a day in August, and down 14.71 percent from an average 1,113,644 barrels a day in September 1998. The Alaska Department of Revenue Division of Oil and Gas Audit cited a number of factors which had a negative impact on last month’s production: the average pump station 1 temperature of 37 degrees Fahrenheit was 3.7 degrees above the average of 33.3 degrees for the month; two 510,000 barrel storage tanks in Valdez were out of service for routine maintenance; at Prudhoe Bay there was gathering center 1 and annex maintenance from Sept. 5-6 in preparation for the Sept. 11 shutdown of the trans-Alaska pipeline; and the 28-32 hour shutdown of the pipeline on Sept. 11-12 for remote gate valve 60 replacement and north pipeline inspection. As of Sept. 30, the division said, fiscal year-to-day production averaged 0.996 million barrels a day, 51,000 barrels a day below the forecast it released in April. The division attributed the lower production to the pipeline shutdown in September and a slow ramp up of production. Prudhoe Bay had the largest absolute drop in production from September to August, averaging 502,375 barrels a day, down 9.31 percent from August. The Lisburne production center was down 11.79 percent from August, averaging 113,363 barrels a day in September. Milne Point production was down 8.68 percent, averaging 51,012 barrels NT SIZE=5 COLOR=black> Print this story Petroleum News - Phone: 1-907 522-9469 [email protected] --- https://www.PetroleumNews.com S U B S C R I B E CLICK BELOW FOR A MESSAGE FROM OUR ADVERTISERS.

September North Slope production down 8 percent from August

The leaders of a conference committee crafting a national energy bill said Sept. 22 that they have included a section in the bill that would allow oil and gas drilling in a 2,000 acre portion of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The language proposed by conference leaders Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., “is almost identical to the ANWR bill passed by the House of Representatives earlier this year,” Arctic Power consultant Roger Herrera told Petroleum News Sept. 22.

Four state of Alaska officials left the morning of Sept. 22 for a three-day tour of shallow gas operations in Colorado and Wyoming, an Alaska Division of Oil and Gas official told Petroleum News. Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin, Division of Oil and Gas Director Mark Myers, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Commissioner Randy Ruedrich and Pat Galvin, who heads up the permitting within the Division of Oil and Gas, will first visit Evergreen Resources’ operations in the Raton Basin in Colorado. From there they will meet with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management personnel, who issue permits in the basin, and officials with AOGCC’s counterpart. The Alaska officials will also meet with a Wyoming environmental group who opposes coalbed methane development. On Oct. 13 the state will host a public informational meeting in Wasilla at the Middle School gym at 6:30 p.m. Irwin, Myers, Ruedrich and Galvin will be at that meeting to share what they learned from their trip. Editor’s note: See full stories in the Sept. 28 issue of Petroleum News.