Proposed GMT1-B2 an ‘oil well’

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has changed the listing of the proposed GMT1-B2 development well in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to an “oil well.”

In a recent notice on its website, the federal agency had originally listed the proposed well in the Greater Mooses Tooth unit as a “gas well,” as reported in the Aug. 23 issue of Petroleum News. The agency subsequently changed the listing to an oil well.

ConocoPhillips began permitting the well in 2013 and recently revised the permitting application to reflect the conclusions of a supplemental environmental impact statement.

The proposed drilling GMT-1 drilling pad, which ConocoPhillips has yet to sanction, would primarily be an oil development feeding into existing Alpine field infrastructure.

- ERIC LIDJI