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Sidebar: Cook Inlet gas production down 8%
Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Natural gas production in Alaska’s Cook Inlet averaged 204,584 thousand cubic feet per day in April, down 8.4%, 8,934 mcf per day, from a March average of 211,619 mcf per day and down 11.2% from an April 2019 average of 230,255 mcf per day.
This data is from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which reports production on a month-delay basis. For natural gas AOGCC reports measurements in thousands of cubic feet, mcf.
Volumes from the inlet’s seven largest gas fields, which accounted for 81% of inlet gas production in April, averaged 165,400 mcf per day, down 4.5% from March, when they accounted for 82% of production.
Of those seven fields, only Hilcorp Alaska’s McArthur River had a month-over-month increase, averaging 20,819 mcf per day, up 2.7%, 555 mcf per day, from a March average of 20,264 mcf per day, but down 11.9% from an April 2019 average of 23,618 mcf per day.
The other six had month-over-month production declines.
Hilcorp’s Ninilchik field averaged 34,313 mcf per day in April, down 10%, 3,841 mcf per day, from a March average of 38,154 mcf per day and down 22.8% from an April 2019 average of 44,470 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Kenai field averaged 33,368 mcf per day in April, down 2,592 mcf per day, 7.5%, from a March average of 36,060 mcf per day, but up 1.5% from an April 2019 average of 32,863 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Swanson River averaged 32,067 mcf per day, down 0.6%, 198 mcf per day, from a March average of 32,265 mcf per day and down 5.7% from an April 2019 average of 33,988 mcf per day.
Beluga River, operated by Hilcorp, averaged 18,204 mcf per day in April, down 375 mcf per day, 2%, from a March average of 18,578 mcf per day and down 33% from an April 2019 average of 27,163 mcf per day.
Kitchen Lights, operated by Furie, averaged 13,790 mcf per day in April, down 1%, 137 mcf per day, from a March average of 13,927 mcf per day and up 18.9% from an April 2019 average of 11,597 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s North Cook Inlet averaged 12,839 mcf per day in April, down 8.4%, 1,184 mcf per day, from a March average of 14,023 mcf per day and down 10.9% from an April 2019 average of 14,416 mcf per day.
Smaller inlet fields Among smaller Cook Inlet fields, Hilcorp’s Beaver Creek had a significant month-over-month gas production increase, averaging 9,145 mcf per day in April, up 1,899 mcf per day, a 26.2% increase from a March average of 7,246 mcf per day and also up 18.3% from an April 2019 average of 7,733 mcf per day.
Other smaller fields also had increases, although not so large as that at Beaver Creek.
Hilcorp’s Trading Bay averaged 3,121 mcf per day in April, up 6.9%, 201 mcf per day, from a March average of 2,920 mcf per day but down 4.8% from an April 2019 average of 3,278 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Middle Ground Shoal averaged 357 mcf per day in April, up 34.9%, 92 mcf per day, from a March average of 265 mcf per day and up 55.8% from an April 2019 average of 229 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Granite Point averaged 3,524 mcf per day in April, up 1.2%, 41 mcf per day, from a March average of 3,483 mcf per day and up 26.7% from an April 2019 average of 2,782 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Lewis River averaged 1,105 mcf per day in April, up 1.4%, 15 mcf per day, from a March average of 1,090 mcf per day and up 346.7% from an April 2019 average of 247 mcf per day.
Redoubt Shoal, operated by Cook Inlet Energy, a Glacier Oil & Gas company, averaged 271 mcf per day in April, up 1.3%, 3 mcf per day, from a March average of 268 mcf per day and up 12.2% from an April 2019 average of 242 mcf per day.
Other smaller fields had decreases.
AIX’s Kenai Loop averaged 5,230 mcf per day in April, down 0.2%, 10 mcf per day, from a March average of 5,241 mcf per day and down 2.9% from an April 2019 average of 5,387 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Cannery Loop averaged 4,460 mcf per day in April, down 7.7%, 370 mcf per day, from a March average of 4,829 mcf per day but up 13.8% from an April 2019 average of 3,919 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Deep Creek averaged 4,074 mcf per day in April, down 0.4%, 17 mcf per day, from a March average of 4,092 mcf per day and down 16.2% from an April 2019 average of 4,864 mcf per day.
The Cook Inlet Energy-operated North Fork field averaged 3,593 mcf per day in April, down 0.9%, 32 mcf per day, from a March average of 3,625 mcf per day and down 0.6% from an April 2019 average of 3,614 mcf per day.
BlueCrest’s Hansen field, the Cosmopolitan project, averaged 3,453 mcf per day in April, down 16.9%, 701 mcf per day, from a March average of 4,154 mcf per day and down 61% from an April 2019 average of 8,863 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Ivan River averaged 346 mcf per day in April, down 4.3%, 16 mcf per day, from a March average of 362 mcf per day and down 26.3% from an April 2019 average of 470 mcf per day.
Amaroq’s Nicolai Creek averaged 260 mcf per day in April, down 7.7%, 22 mcf per day, from a March average of 282 mcf per day and down 36% from an April 2019 average of 406 mcf per day.
Hilcorp’s Nikolaevsk averaged 187 mcf per day in April, down 55.5%, 234 mcf per day, from a March average of 421 mcf per day; AOGCC records show no production from the field in April 2019.
Cook Inlet Energy’s West McArthur River averaged 58 mcf per day in April, down 18.6%, 13 mcf per day, from a March average of 71 mcf per day and down 45.9% from an April 2019 average of 106 mcf per day.
Cook Inlet natural gas production peaked in the mid-1990s at more than 850,000 mcf per day.
- KRISTEN NELSON
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