The Explorers 2021: Sidebar: Check this out

Kay Cashman

Petroleum News

In early December 2020 Oil Search Alaska COO Matt Elmer told attendees of a Resource Development Council virtual meeting that the two 2020 Mitquq exploration penetrations discovered a separate reservoir lying to the east and parallel with the Pikka Nanushuk reservoir, its tentative length and width similar to that of Pikka - see pdf or print version of Dec. 13, 2020, Petroleum News to view resource map in story titled “Oil and more oil” that shows this new reservoir.

The same map shows that the 2020 Stirrup exploration well also discovered a separate reservoir that lies west of both Pikka and the Horseshoe discovery - this is the well that had the highest flow rate of any North Slope Nanushuk well drilled from a straight hole with a single stage frac.

- KAY CASHMAN