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Savant permitting Red Wolf well Exploration prospect within Badami would come after work finishes on two workovers within Badami Sands participating area Eric Lidji For Petroleum News
Savant Alaska LLC could return to the Red Wolf prospect this winter.
The local affiliate of Denver-based Savant Resources is looking to drill the onshore Red Wolf No. 2 delineation well in the Badami unit this winter. The 12,000-foot vertical well would be on ADL 367005, in the western half of the eastern North Slope unit.
The exploration prospect sits outside the Badami Sands participating area, where development has historically been focused since the unit first came online in 1998.
The program this winter involves a winter road, an ice well pad and two ice pad staging areas. Savant hopes to drill, test and complete the well between now and mid-May.
The Division of Oil and Gas is taking comments on the proposal through Feb. 13.
Two workovers planned first Whether or not Savant gets to drill Red Wolf No. 2 this winter depends in part of scheduling. The company first plans to work over the B1-16 and B1-21 wells, “installing gas lift to be able to produce the wells to the plant,” Greg Vigil, company president, told Petroleum News.
Savant is using Nabors 9ES rig for its work this winter. The rig is scheduled to spend the first half of the winter drilling at Repsol’s Kachemach-1 pad southwest of Kuparuk.
Red Wolf No. 2 will target the Kekiktuk formation, the formation that contains the oil reservoir for the Endicott field, west of Badami. The Kekiktuk is a deeper and older geologic formation than the Brookian, where previous Badami development occurred.
Savant drilled the B1-38 well into the Red Wolf prospect in early 2010 and found oil in two horizons: the Kekiktuk and the shallower late Cretaceous Killian sands. Although Red Wolf is still an exploration prospect, it is currently producing from the Killian.
Red Wolf No. 2 is about two miles northwest of the bottom-hole for the B1-38 well.
Savant is on an ongoing mission to improve production rates at Badami, which has been shut down and restarted numerous times in its life. Production increased in the first half of 2011, but fell in the second half before picking up again toward the end of the year, the result, according to the company, of a planned turnaround at the field in October.
In November 2011, the most recent figures available, the unit produced 26,792 barrels of oil from the Badami field and 6,842 barrels from the Badami Undefined field.
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