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State of Alaska receives winter seismic, core hole applications for Cook Inlet, Nenana, Holitna basins
Petroleum News
The state of Alaska has received applications for winter seismic programs in the Cook Inlet and Nenana basins, and a core hole application in the Holitna basin.
The seismic applications, on the south Kenai Peninsula, on the west side of Cook Inlet and in the Nenana basin, are from Veritas DGC Land.
Veritas said the Cook Inlet programs, approximately 100 miles of two-dimensional seismic, would be shot between the end of January and May 1.
The south Kenai program is southeast of Ninilchik and north of Anchor Point. The crew will stay in Ninilchik.
The west side survey is from the Moquawkie area straddling the Beluga River and continuing south to North Foreland and Trading Bay. The crew will stay in the VECO camp in Beluga.
The Nenana basin survey is approximately 200 miles of 2D seismic. Veritas said that work would be done from Jan. 15 through May 15, with mobilization of equipment out of Anchorage in January. Accommodations will be on site at a mobile remote camp. Core holes in Holitna basin The application for the core hole program is from Naniq Energy Co. LLC of Eagle River, Alaska, to drill two core holes in the Holitna basin some 15 miles southeast of Sleetmute. Equipment will be moved up the Kuskokwim River from the Red Devin airstrip in January to build an ice strip on Big Lake. A Hercules C-130 aircraft will transport two truck-mounted drill rigs and supplies to the Big Lake ice strip, and the equipment will be moved cross country to the drill sites.
The two core holes will be drilled to a depth not exceeding 3,500 feet, and the holes will be logged and the cuttings put down the holes.
The core hole locations are in sections 7-35 of township 17 north, range 42 west, Seward Meridian, and sections 6 and 8 of T16N-R42W, SM.
The crew will stay in Red Devil and be taken to the sites by helicopter. Naniq estimates approximately 90 days of work.
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