Third producing well completed at Northstar

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

A third producing well was completed at the Northstar oil field this week, Greg Mattson, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.’s director of new development told Alliance members in Anchorage late last month.

The well was the first in Alaska to use fiber optic sensors to continuously monitor temperature and pressure along the drill string, Mattson said. BP has tested the technology on wells in Norway and Columbia over the last nine months.

The fiber is a product of Cidra Corp. of Houston, which signed a deal in August to provide fiber optic sensors to BP worldwide, Cidra said in a statement.

The current rate of production at the Beaufort Sea Northstar unit is 25,000 barrels a day, Mattson said.