Hilcorp’s Seaview plan for 2022 approved

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Oil and Gas has approved Hilcorp Alaska’s 2022 plan of exploration for Seaview. The Seaview unit was approved in August 2020. It consists of hundreds of individual tracts and owners including the state. Hilcorp is the only working interest owner and the operator, the division said.

One gas well, Seaview 8, has been drilled and is producing, with production from the Clark participating area.

The field began production in June 2021. April production volumes from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the most recent available, show cumulative production from the field of 155,793 thousand cubic feet, mcf, with production averaging 275 mcf per day in April.

Hilcorp submitted the 2022 POE in late April (see story in May 8 issue of Petroleum News).

The division said that during the 2021 DOE Hilcorp proposed and completed a pipeline to the Seaview 8 well and began production. The company also proposed and completed additional drilling, the Seaview 9 and an additional well, Whiskey Gulch 1, adjacent to the Seaview unit.

During the 2022 POE Hilcorp plans to continue evaluating results from the Seaview 9 and possibly complete additional perforations, the division said. The company will also exchange the compressor currently at the Seaview 1 pd for a smaller model.

The division approved the 2022 POE covering Aug. 1 through July 31, 2023.

- KRISTEN NELSON