ARCO Alaska plans to keep two seismic crews busy shooting seismic

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

Western Geophysical Co. has filed with the state to run five seismic surveys for ARCO Alaska Inc. on the North Slope between Nov. 15 and May 31.

The company said it expects to have two crews working and to shoot 500-1,000 square miles per crew of two- and three-dimensional seismic.

All of the individual programs are described as 3-D seismic, and include: Aurora, some 200 square miles northwest of Deadhorse; Fiord, some 450 square miles north of Nuiqsut and including offshore in Harrison Bay and the Beaufort Sea; Grizzly, some 357 square miles south-southwest of Nuiqsut; Power Line, some 386 square miles west of Nuiqsut; and S.E. Delta, some 450 square miles approximately centered at Nuiqsut.