CINGSA well planning underway

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

John Sims, president of Enstar and its subsidiary CINGSA, Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska, told the Resource Development Council in a March 21 presentation that CINGSA has received approval from the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to add two wells to the five it currently has at CINGSA's Kenai facilities.

The wells, he said, would provide additional production capacity at the facility, which stores natural gas for use in cold weather when demand is heaviest.

On March 29, CINGSA received approval from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas to install two reciprocating compressors and one dehydration unit at CINGSA's Kenai facilities. The division said housing for existing compression and dehydration equipment would be expanded, with all activities on existing pads.

The facility is in the City of Kenai some 2 miles east of the mouth of the Kenai River.

--KRISTEN NELSON