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Explorers 2025: Glacier/Savant evaluating targets
Planning another Badami exploration well; East Pad construction on track to begin summer 2026
Kay Cashman Petroleum News
Savant Alaska, a Glacier Oil & Gas company, drilled the B1-33 Killian well from the Badami Main Pad during the 2023-2024 winter drilling season as part of the Kennicott exploration program.
The well also penetrated Badami sands and was the first exploration well in the eastern North Slope Badami unit since the B1-07 well in early 2018.
The latest Badami annual plan of development, the 22nd, which runs from July 16, 2025, through July 15, 2026, was filed on March 27, 2025, by Savant as unit operator. It was signed by Chief Operating Officer David Pascal.
This POD builds on the momentum established during the previous year with the successful execution of the Kennicott exploration program and the resulting Steller prospect.
Glacier is evaluating targets for another Killian exploration well from the Badami Main Pad, intending to drill it during the 2025-2026 ice road season into a new Killian reservoir sand.
This well is expected to prove-up the extensive Killian play beyond the participating area, or PA, at Badami.
New drill targets Glacier has continued to vet-out recently identified drill targets in the Badami and Killian sands which can be drilled from both the Badami Main Pad and the proposed Badami East Pad.
Additionally, the company has updated seismic inversion processing of seismic data to de-risk prospects and optimize well placement.
As of March 27, Glacier has three drill-ready objectives (Steller A, Steller B, and Tana) that are obtainable from the Badami Main Pad.
During the 22nd POD period Glacier will conduct pressure-temperature, or PT, surveys on B 1-33 and B 1-07 to determine fluid level, reservoir pressure, and reservoir mobility.
This data will guide strategies for optimizing production and well performance
East Pad Glacier has determined that prospectivity beyond the existing PA is sufficient to merit development of the proposed Badami East Pad, which will be integral to full Killian development.
Construction of the new pad is anticipated to begin in the summer of 2026.
The Badami Main Pad houses the processing facilities, and the proposed Badami East Pad will serve as a satellite location and tie into the Badami Main Pad, gathering production from new wells drilled from the Badami East Pad.
Glacier has continued to refine, characterize, and de-risk the prospects related to the Killian sands outside of the PA by incorporating subsurface technical data from the Kennicott drilling program.
This geological evaluation of reservoirs outside of the PA has led to the successful acquisition of 11,899 acres since 2021 which contain prospective exploration leads.
The company will continue geological and geophysical, or G&G, evaluation of the 11,899 acres, including the most recent acquisition of 2,512 acres in 2024.
This includes 1,280 acres to the south of the unit, 2,560 acres to the west, and 8,059 acres to the north.
Glacier conducted preliminary G&G evaluation of the newly acquired acreage by mapping key seismic horizons, tying into existing well logs, and identifying prospective targets.
The company continues to be engaged in well and facility maintenance, optimization, and looking at options to enhance production. This includes gas lift optimization and paraffin scraping as Bl-33 came online.
Additionally, maintenance and repair on rotating equipment and upgrades to the emergency power generation equipment were performed.
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