The company has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources- Division of Oil and Gas to install new gas production infrastructure on its existing Whiskey Gulch Pad near Anchor Point, north of the company- s Seaview unit.

The division said April 28 that it received the lease plan of operations application April 9 and is taking public comments through May 28.

In its application Hilcorp said it would "install subsurface piping and new infrastructure to produce gas to sales from the existing well(s) at Whiskey Gulch" with activities to occur on the existing pad.

The company drilled stratigraphic test wells and exploration wells at Whiskey Gulch, beginning with a dozen stratigraphic test wells in 2019 and 2020 and progressing to exploration wells in 2021.

Hilcorp said work at the existing Whiskey Gulch pad would begin in mid-May, subject to permit approval, and run through the end of July.

A map accompanying the application shows three wells on the pad, Whiskey Gulch 1, completed in 2021, Whiskey Gulch 14, completed in 2022, and Whiskey Gulch 15, for which the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission shows neither spud nor completion dates.

Whiskey Gulch 1 had a measured depth of 10,271 feet and a true vertical depth of 9,331 feet; Whiskey Gulch 14 had a MD of 8,013 feet and a TVD of 7,261 feet.

AOGCC lists both as single completion gas wells and shows the pool as Whiskey Gulch undefined gas.

Hilcorp told the commission in a spacing exception application for the Whiskey 14 that it was targeting the Sterling, Beluga and Tyonek formations within Whiskey Gulch undefined oil and gas pools, and said results from the Whiskey Gulch 1 well and data from surrounding fields "suggests that the Whiskey Gulch Undefined Gas Pool consists of a series of thin, discontinuous, stacked channel sands with a low net-to-gross ratio."

--KRISTEN NELSON