BP to reuse some gravel for Schrader expansion at Milne

Petroleum News Alaska

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has applications in to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for gravel on wetlands for its Schrader Bluff-Milne Point expansion, and some of that gravel will be from old pads and an airstrip.

For S pad development, the Corps said that as a mitigation effort “to reduce impacts to the aquatic environment,” BP has proposed to recover gravel and rehabilitate the Milne Point unit N pad and the West Sak 25 pad. BP expects to be able to recover some 33,000 cubic yards of clean reused gravel from N pad and West Sak 25 pad. Another 2,800 cubic yards from N pad and 5,500 cubic yards from West Sak 25 are contaminated or dirty and will be treated.

Gravel requirements for the new S pad, a tie-in-pad and access roads total 133,250 cubic yards; some 14 acres of wetlands will be used for the project.

BP is also expanding the G, H and I pads at Milne to accommodate Schrader expansion. That portion of the project will require approximately 62,200 cubic yards of gravel on 6.37 acres of wetland. For this