August ANS production up slightly from July

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

August production of Alaska North Slope crude oil averaged 936,139 barrels a day, up 0.21 percent (1,927 barrels a day) from the July average of 934,212 barrels a day.

Production from the Kuparuk River field (Kuparuk, Tarn, Tabasco) averaged 226,592 barrels a day in August, up 2.45 percent from a July average of 221,180 barrels a day (a 5,412 barrel a day average increase). At Prudhoe Bay, August production averaged 529,089 barrels a day, up 1.09 percent from the July average of 523,402 barrels a day (a 5,687 barrel a day average increase).

August production at other North Slope fields declined from July, with Lisburne (Lisburne, Niakuk, Point McIntyre) dropping 8.1 percent, to 89,369 barrels a day, from a July average of 97,209 barrels a day (an average drop of 7,840 barrels a day).

Production at Endicott averaged 38,600 barrels a day in August, down 1.6 percent (606 barrels) from July’s average of 39,206 barrels a day. Milne Point averaged 52,489 barrels a day in August, down 1.4 percent from July’s average of 53,215.

Cook Inlet production averaged 28,042 barrels a day in August, down 598 barrels a day (2.1 percent) from July’s average of 28,640 barrels a day.