Furie completes construction of Kitchen Lights platform
Construction of Furie Operating Alaska's Kitchen Lights Unit Platform A offshore in Cook Inlet has been completed, Bruce Webb, Furie senior vice president, has told Petroleum News. The platform, connected to shore by a subsea gas pipeline, will support production from the Kitchen Lights gas field.
After the heavy lift vessel MV Svenja placed the platform's monopod caisson onto the seafloor in early June, the team installing the platform had to insert pilings into the seafloor and cement the seafloor assembly to hold the caisson in place. With the cement having hardened, the Svenja could then place the topside decks onto the caisson, an operation that has now been completed.
Furie has now to hook up the subsea pipeline to the platform - the pipeline has already been laid. Furie anticipates the completion of testing and commissioning of the platform, pipeline and associated shore facilities in time for gas production to start at the beginning of 2016.
- ALAN BAILEY
July ANS crude production up 1% from June
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has begun the permitting process for a five-year National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska exploration program slated to begin this winter. BP staked locations last year, but did no exploratory drilling.
The company's Trailblazer prospect, with as many as eight possible well pad locations, adds two locations to those staked last year.
The five-year program, BP said, is in conjunction with partners Chevron and Phillips and drilling is contingent on permits, partner consensus and funding -- and could shift from the winter of 2000-2001 to the future.
The prospect will be reached by a 54 mile grounded sea ice road on the Beaufort Sea from Oliktok Point to the Kalikpik River and by a 16 mile ice road over tundra from the mouth of the river to A pad, the company's first planned location. BP said it may be able to use the Phillips Alaska Inc. Alpine ice road if sharing agreements can be negotiated. Ice construction would take place from December to February; a rig would be mobilized in February; the first well would be spud about mid-February and if significant hydrocarbons were found, wells may be tested.
BP said its initial ice pad would be in sections 13 and 14 of township 12N, range 3W, Umiat Meridian. This is on a tract for which partners BP (50 percent), Chevron (30 percent) and Phillips (20) percent paid $608.28 an acre at the 1999 federal NPR-A lease sale.
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