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SPE western region meeting in Anchorage, May 26-27
Petroleum News Alaska Staff
The Society of Petroleum Engineers 69th annual western regional meeting is being held in Anchorage with technical meetings May 26 and May 27 at the William A. Egan Convention Center and luncheons at the Anchorage Hilton.
Technical sessions include coiled-tubing technology; fracture stimulation technology; health, safety and environment; flood management and EOR design; artificial lift and production optimization; and reservoir characterization and fluid flow mechanisms.
For details see the SPE Alaska section’s web side at www.alaska.net/~speak. 1999 work complete at Red Dog Drilling was completed April 2 on the Red Dog exploration well on the eastern North Slope between Badami and Point Thomson. The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission reported that the well has been suspended.
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. drilled the well, and company spokeswoman Carla Beam told PNA May 17, “We’re suspending it; we’re not abandoning it. We’ll be reentering the wellbore next winter. We were not able to complete what we wanted to do this winter. So will be talking with partners about work next winter.”
Exxon to study feasibility of gas pipeline from Sakhalin to Japan
Exxon Corp. said May 13 that Exxon Japan Pipeline Ltd. has signed an agreement with a new Japanese company, Sakhalin Pipeline FS Co. Ltd. to evaluate the feasibility of natural gas deliveries from the Russian border south of Sakhalin Island to Japan via pipeline.
Gas would be from Chayvo, one of three Sakhalin I blocks, with a proven resource of approximately 10 trillion cubic feet of gas.
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