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Hilcorp files GPMA '25 plan of development
Greater Point McIntyre area plans include rotary sidetrack near Raven PA, up to 3 rotary grassroots, 2 potential CTD sidetracks Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
In a 2025 plan of development for the Prudhoe Bay Greater Point McIntyre area operator Hilcorp North Slope said it plans a rotary sidetrack near the Raven participating area "targeting the Undefined Sag River and Ivishak." In the July 24 POD, covering Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, 2026, Hilcorp said it also anticipates drilling as many as three rotary grassroots wells, two within the Point McIntyre PA and one into the 2023 Point McIntyre PA expansion area. Potential drilling candidates also include two coil tubing sidetracks within the Point McIntyre PA.
Hilcorp said it will continue to evaluate future drilling opportunities and potential undeveloped resources although those activities are not targeted for a specific POD period.
Two tract operations have expiration dates and Hilcorp said that prior to those expirations it will pursue expansion of Raven PA.
Participating areas The Point McIntyre PA is currently the most prolific of the participating areas within the GPMA. It was formed in 1993, Hilcorp said, and includes the Point McIntyre and Stump Lake reservoirs. There are two drill sites, PM1 and PM2. Annual volumes provided by Hilcorp in its POD show more than 57% of GMPA current production coming from Point McIntyre.
Lisburne PA is the second most prolific producer at GPMA, accounting for more than 38% of volume. Lisburne was discovered in early 1968 with the drilling of Prudhoe Bay State No. 1. Development drilling at Lisburne started in 1985; the field came on-line at the end of 1986.
The combined Niakuk PA currently contributes less than 3% of GPMA volume, tract operations just over 1% and Raven less than 0.5%.
The North Prudhoe Bay and West Beach PAs currently have no production.
2024 POD Hilcorp said it had proposed drilling as many as nine new wells in the 2024 POD, with two rotary wells targeting the Raven PA. One rotary well was drilled during the plan period targeting Raven but the well had to be sidetracked twice, the company said, "and was still unable to reach the target depth after two months of effort." Hilcorp said it did not anticipate another well during the 2024 POD period, ending in September.
There was no other drilling "as the drilling rigs under contract were deployed on other projects."
While no workovers were anticipated in the 2024 POD, Hilcorp said two rig workovers were drilled before the end of the 2023 POD period, one an integrity repair at P1-17, completed in August 2024, and an initial completion at P2-55 also in August 2024. P1-17 came online at some 800 barrels per day. P2-55, following a December 2024 fracture treatment, came online at some 600 bpd.
Hilcorp said all long-range reservoir evaluation activities included in the 2024 POD were begun and are continuing, including analysis of data from recently drilled wells and reevaluation of older interpretive data.
The tract-operating status of two wells producing from the Sag River formation outside Raven PA was extended through April and May of 2027.
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