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ANS production down 3% from December January production averaged 530,208 bpd, down from 546,388 bpd; December Cook Inlet production up 1% at 18,110 bpd Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Alaska North Slope production averaged 530,208 barrels per day in January, down 2.96 percent from a December average of 546,388 bpd, a drop of 16,180 bpd. With the exception of Lisburne, all major producing centers had a month-over-month drop in production.
The largest December to January per-barrel drop was at the BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Prudhoe Bay field, the Slope’s largest, which averaged 308,022 bpd in January, down 4 percent, 12,897 bpd, from a December average of 320,919 bpd.
Information for January is from the Alaska Department of Revenue’s Tax Division which reports North Slope oil production consolidated by major production centers and provides daily production and monthly averages. More detailed data, including Cook Inlet and individual North Slope fields and pools, is reported by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on a month-delay basis.
Prudhoe Bay production as reported by Revenue includes satellite production from Aurora, Borealis, Midnight Sun, Orion, Polaris, Schrader Bluff, Sag River and Ugnu, as well as from the Hilcorp Alaska-operated Milne Point and Northstar fields.
AOGCC data for December shows Milne Point producing an average of 19,684 bpd in that month, down 19.4 percent from a November average of 24,431 bpd, and Northstar producing 11,629 bpd, up 27 percent from a November average of 9,155 bpd.
Most areas down The Hilcorp Alaska-operated Endicott field had the largest month-over-month percentage drop, averaging 9,318 bpd in January, down 5.37 percent from a December average of 9,847 bpd. Endicott includes production from Eider, Minke and Sag Delta, as well as from the Savant Alaska-operated Badami field. AOGCC figures show that Badami averaged 988 bpd in December, down 2.14 percent from a November average of 1,010 bpd.
The ConocoPhillips Alaska-operated Kuparuk River field averaged 138,527 bpd in January, down 2.77 percent, 3,950 bpd, from a December average of 142,477 bpd.
Kuparuk includes production from satellites at Meltwater, Northeast West Sak, Tabasco, Tarn and West Sak, as well as from the Eni-operated Nikaitchuq field and the Caelus Alaska-operated Oooguruk field.
AOGCC data show Nikaitchuq averaged 25,393 bpd in December, up 3.94 percent from a November average of 24,431 bpd, while Oooguruk averaged 11,327 bpd in December, down 11.52 percent from a November average of 12,802 bpd.
The ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine field averaged 47,691 bpd in January, down 1.15 percent from a December average of 48,245 bpd. Alpine includes satellite production from Fiord, Nanuq and Qannik.
Lisburne up The only North Slope producing area to show a January over December uptick was BP-operated Lisburne, part of Greater Prudhoe Bay, which averaged 26,650 bpd in January, up 7 percent from a December average of 24,900 bpd. Lisburne includes production from Point McIntyre, Niakuk and Raven.
Cook Inlet up 1.2% AOGCC data show production from Cook Inlet fields averaged 18,110 bpd in December, up 1.2 percent from a November average of 17,894 bpd.
The largest month-over-month production increases were at two Cook Inlet Energy-operated fields - Redoubt Shoal and West McArthur River. Redoubt Shoal averaged 961 bpd in December, up 27 percent from a November average of 757 bpd, and West McArthur River averaged 1,660 bpd in December, up 23.9 percent from a November average of 1,340 bpd.
Hilcorp Alaska had a 4.74 percent month-over-month increase at Cook Inlet’s largest field, McArthur River, which averaged 5,562 bpd in December, up from an average of 5,311 bpd in November.
Production at Hilcorp’s Swanson River field averaged 2,293 bpd in December, up marginally from 2,291 bpd in November, while ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO’s Middle Ground Shoal field averaged the same 1,947 bpd in December as it had in November.
Hilcorp’s Granite Point field was down marginally, averaging 2,771 bpd in December, down from 2,777 bpd in November.
Hilcorp’s Beaver Creek, Cook Inlet’s smallest, averaged 111 bpd in December, down 7.25 percent from a November average of 119 bpd. Hilcorp’s Trading Bay field averaged 2,804 bpd in December, down 16.35 percent from a November average of 3,353 bpd.
ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at 2.1 million bpd; Cook Inlet crude oil production peaked in 1970 at more than 227,000 bpd.
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