Forest Oil Corp. has applied to re-enter an old Gulf well on the west side of Cook Inlet, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources said Aug. 29.
The Middle Lake Unit No. 1 was drilled by Gulf Oil Corp. in 1969, looking for oil, and plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.
Middle Lake Unit No. 1 is on an existing drill site some eight-tenths of a mile inside the eastern boundary of the Susitna Flats State Game Refuge, east of the Little Susitna River.
Forest told the state that Middle Lake “is being evaluated primarily as a natural gas development.”
Forest said in its plan of operations that it will clean out the existing well bore at the Middle Lake Unit well, drill new hole below the 9 5/8-inch casing to an estimated 6,500 feet and test the well for natural gas.
Should the well prove commercially viable, Forest said it would initiate plans for production.
