Operator Ocean Energy reports on four Pioneer unit wells

Kristen Nelson

Gas was found at three shallow wells at the Pioneer unit in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough last fall and this winter.

Ocean Energy Resources Inc., the operator of the Ocean Energy-Unocal Alaska Resources Pioneer unit, has reported the completion of four wells to the state.

The Pioneer unit 15DA-WD, a water disposal well, is a 4,265-foot vertical hole.

The Pioneer unit 14CC was completed as a gas development well. It has a vertical depth of 3,980 feet and a measured depth of 4,050 feet.

A second gas development well, the Pioneer unit 15DD, is a vertical hole with a depth of 4,228 feet. These wells were drilled off Vine Road southwest of Wasilla in the coalbed methane play first drilled by GRI near Houston.

Ocean Energy also reentered the Big Lake BLT 01, a conventional vertical exploration hole drilled by ARCO Alaska Inc. to 6,200 feet in 1992 south of Houston off the Big Lake Road. ARCO was reported to be looking for oil; it plugged and abandoned the well.

Ocean Energy reported to the state that it has completed the BLT as a gas development well.

The water disposal well (15DA-WD) and the 14CC wells were completed in September, the 15DD well in October and the reentry of the BLT well in January.

By law, the state will not release any additional information which was reported on the wells until 25 months after the well completion date.