Small lease transactions in June

Tramlaw LLC, Tekram LLC and Robert Warthen have each asked the state for permission to transfer separate 1 percent royalty interests in 11 Beaufort Sea leases to operator NordAq Energy Inc. The leases are ADL 392182 through ADL 392192. The leases are in a region of Smith Bay where NordAq explored this past winter. The company is the process of selling those leases to Caelus Energy Alaska Inc.

At the Point Thomson unit, the Estate of Jeanne Alice Searls transferred small working and royalty interests (all less than 1 percent) in ADL 47560 to Susan Jeanne Searls Collier and to John Searls and the Estate of John W. Perry transferred small working and royalty interests (all less than 1 percent) in the same lease to the Estate of Jeanne Alice Searls, Linda Lou Searls Neidert, John Searls and Susan Jeanne Searls Collier.

The Department of Natural Resources issued North Slope leases to Burgundy Xploration LLC, 70 & 148 LLC, ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. and Woodstone Resources LLC.

The Apache Alaska Corp. lease ADL 391244 expired at the end of May 2015, at the end of its primary term. The lease is offshore of the Kenai Peninsula, between Clam Gulch and Kasilof and is nestled among a larger group of leases that mostly expire in 2022.

David J. and Catherine T. Doherty have asked to transfer a 0.1 percent royalty interest in six Cook Inlet leases to Proak LLC. The leases are ADL 389927, ADL 389928, ADL 389929, ADL 390374 and ADL 390381 and are associated with the Kitchen Lights unit.

Walter Fuller has asked to transfer separate 0.6 percent royalty interest in one Cook Inlet lease to Mickey Jane Fuller. The lease is ADL 390094 and is offshore Kenai Peninsula.

- ERIC LIDJI

—A copyrighted oil and gas lease map from Mapmakers Alaska was a research tool used in preparing this story.