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Hilcorp submits 42nd POD for Cannery Loop
Production averaged 5.1 million cubic feet per day in 2020, 1.86 billion cubic feet for the year, an increase from 1.77 bcf in 2019 Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Hilcorp Alaska has submitted the 42nd plan of development for the Cannery Loop unit on the Kenai Peninsula, a POD covering Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
Cannery Loop produces natural gas.
In 2020, Hilcorp said, production averaged 5.1 million standard cubic feet per day, with cumulative production for the year of 1.86 billion cubic feet.
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission records show cumulative production of 208.25 bcf over the life of the field. Production in 2019 totaled 1.77 bcf. In March, the most recent month for which AOGCC data is available, Cannery Loop accounted for 2.2% of Cook Inlet natural gas production.
2020 plan work Hilcorp said in a summary of 2020 activity that it is evaluating new information from the November 2019 drilling of the CLU 14, along with the CLU 15 well in progress, both targeting the eastern portion of the structure in the Middle/Lower Beluga sands. There are secondary targets in the Sterling sands. The company said data from the wells “will provide new insight into the shape and size of the eastern flank of the Beluga and Tyonek structures.”
The company re-perforated the UT-5A sand in the CLU 1RD and saw a production increase of some 160 thousand cubic feet, mcf, per day. A rig workover pulled existing tubing in the CLU 14 and installed a smaller tubing “to aid in unlading produced water.” The project, finished in October, was successful in reducing water slugging in the well, the company said, but production dropped slightly. In December, additional perforations were added in the Lower and Middle Beluga sands and productivity was increased by some 2,200 mcf per day. The company said additional perforations were planned in April.
A rig workover was done at the CLU 5RD in July, but the company said the “project failed to produce sustained gas production,” while additional perforations in the Upper Beluga in October “produced water and failed to sustain gas production. Additional perforations are being added in April 2021 to attempt to unload the well and return it to production.”
The company has perforations planned for the CLU 11 to unload and return the well to production.
A recompletion to the Beluga sands is planned for the CLU 1RD in May.
Also in the 2020 POD, the CLU 6RD was drilled and completed in the Sterling A and B sands, with several of the sands perforated, but the perforations all resulted “in a combination of water and sand production,” and the company said it is evaluating the future utility of that well.
CLU Pad 3 was reactivated for operations, requiring infrastructure to be put back into operation.
A sales compressor had been planned for CLU Pad 1, but that compressor was not installed. Hilcorp said the project “was later deemed unnecessary at this time and no further plans are in place to execute this project.”
2021 POD Long-range development activities include evaluation of additional wells, with one potential a sidetrack of CLU 10 to target Deep Tyonek sands, Hilcorp said, noting that potential timing for the well “is dependent upon current risked resource and economics, market demand, pipeline capacity, and competitiveness within Hilcorp’s gas project portfolio.”
The company is evaluating new information and production results from the CLU 6RD along with other “intervention/recompletion activity.”
Hilcorp said it “will evaluate and execute additional well work opportunities as they arise,” with rig workovers or additional perforations “evaluated as necessary to maintain and enhance existing CLU production.”
No major facility projects or upgrades are planned for the 2021 POD period, the company said.
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