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CD-5 work to begin in ’14; first oil ’15
ConocoPhillips Alaska said after the Corps of Engineers approved CD-5 development Dec. 19 that the goal for next year was to move to project sanction.
Plans described in the Corps’ decision showed two years of construction.
ConocoPhillips Alaska spokeswoman Natalie Lowman said after the Corps approved the permit that the company would “evaluate and incorporate the terms of the permit into our project plan as we attempt to progress to full sanctioning in the coming year.” (See story in Dec. 25 issue of Petroleum News.)
CD-5 will be the first development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; crude oil will go to Alpine for processing and then move through the Alpine pipeline system to North Slope connections which will take it to the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.
Construction beginning in 2014 Loman said Dec. 28 that the two-year construction schedule would begin in the winter of 2014, with the second year of work done in 2015.
“We would expect first oil by late 2015,” Lowman said.
The Corps’ decision said that fill placement for road and drill pad and installation of vertical support members would occur only during winter.
Construction of the gravel road, production pad and bridge piers would be completed in the first winter, with final road compaction and grading and installation of bridge decking for two of the smaller bridges the following summer, the Corps said.
Installation of the vertical support members, pipeline and completion of the Nigliq Channel bridge superstructure and decking would be done in the second winter, with surface facilities at the CD-5 pad proposed to be substantially complete by the end of the second year.
—Kristen Nelson
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