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Svenja heavy lift on location; platform arrives in Cook Inlet
The MV Svenja heavy lift vessel is on location for installation of Furie Operating Alaska’s Kitchen Lights gas production platform.
Bruce Webb, Furie senior vice president, told Petroleum News in a May 22 email that the Svenja moorings are in place at the platform location over the Kitchen Lights No. 3 well and have been approved. The platform spent the winter in Seattle and arrived in Cook Inlet by barge from Seattle with installation scheduled to start the week of May 25.
After the Svenja is in position its first task was to set in place the seafloor template used to position the platform. Furie said it anticipates setting the platform’s monopod leg in position about June 5, and placing the topside of the platform about July 7.
The platform will be some 10 miles northwest of Boulder Point, near Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula.
Pipe being laid Laying of subsea pipeline to transport natural gas from the platform to shore has started and Furie’s Spartan 151 jack-up drilling rig has been positioned offshore the land-based processing facility to assist in pulling the gas pipeline through a borehole under the coastal bluffs.
The processing facility is near East Foreland on the Kenai Peninsula; construction is nearing completion.
Initial development of the field will use the Kitchen Lights No. 3 well. Furie drilled that well in 2013 in the Corsair block of the Kitchen Lights unit using the Spartan 151 jack-up.
Furie hopes to secure gas supply contracts that would support an initial production rate of 85 million cubic feet per day.
Connection application Kenai Beluga Pipeline LLC has applied to the Regulatory Commission of Alaska for a permit to connect the pipeline to a lateral line from Furie’s facilities in Nikiski. KBPL said in the application that Furie will remove liquids and dehydrate the gas. Furie’s 10-inch diameter lateral extends some 1,340 feet from the processing facility to a connection point with the former CIGGS segment of KBPL’s mainline pipeline facility at East Foreland.
- Kristen Nelson
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