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Conditional appr. for Kitchen Lights Alaska's Division of Oil & Gas accepts Furie's offshore Cook Inlet unit development plan
Alan Bailey for Petroleum News
Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas has approved Furie Operating Alaska's 12th plan of development for the Kitchen Lights Unit, offshore in the Cook Inlet. However, the approval is conditional on Furie committing to drill two new development wells in the unit from the Allegra Leigh offshore platform during the period of the plan, which runs from Jan. 4, 2026, to Jan. 3, 2027.
In the proposed plan that Furie filed with the division in October the company had tentatively planned to drill up to two new development wells. The drilling would be contingent on factors such as the availability of a jack-up rig for the drilling, the availability of required support services, and regulatory support, the proposed plan of development said. Furie conducts development drilling from the platform using a jack-up rig.
In its plan of development approval statement the division rejected the tentative nature of Furie's drilling plans and required the company to drill at least two wells during the plan period. DOG said that this drilling would be in keeping with the terms of a royalty modification agreement with the state -- the division said that the royalty modification requires full utilization of the Allegra Leigh platform by 2028. The division also required Furie to provide monthly updates on its efforts to obtain a jack-up rig for drilling new wells in 2026.
Continuing development As previously reported in July of this year Furie completed two new development wells from the offshore platform, with a resulting doubling of the Kitchen Lights gas production, John Hendrix, president and CEO of HEX Cook Inlet told Petroleum News. Furie is a wholly owned subsidiary of HEX Cook Inlet.
While praising the company's field development success this year, the division commented that substantial further development potential exists in the unit.
Furie has increased the Allegra Leigh platform's well capacity to support up to 12 wells, with the possibility of increasing that capacity to 14 wells. The platform currently has six producing wells.
The division also commented that Furie's proposed drilling in 2026 still fits within phase one of Furie's three-phase, full-field development plan for the Kitchen Lights unit. Phase one consists of development drilling from the Allegra Leigh platform, while phases two and three focus on exploration in the northern and southern portions of the Kitchen Lights unit.
Furie has indicated that the drilling of up to three exploration wells would be needed to delineate gas resources in phase two, with an additional offshore platform and subsea pipeline being needed for the development of those resources.
Decisions on any exploration conducted in phase three would be deferred until more data is acquired while conducting phases two and three, Furie has indicated, the DOG wrote
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