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July ANS production down marginally Alaska North Slope crude oil averages 497,342 bpd; Kuparuk, Lisburne up; Prudhoe, Endicott, Alpine all down; Cook Inlet up 4% Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 497,342 barrels per day in July, down marginally (0.05 percent) from a June average of 497,582 bpd. Cook Inlet production volumes, with information available on a month-delay basis, showed a 4.2 percent June-over-May increase, averaging 14,135 bpd in June compared to 13,571 bpd in May.
Two areas on the North Slope had month-over-month increases: Kuparuk and Lisburne.
Production from the ConocoPhillips Alaska-operated Kuparuk River field averaged 128,979 bpd in July, up 7.8 percent from a June average of 119,645 bpd. Kuparuk production includes satellite production from Meltwater, Tabasco, Tarn and West Sak, as well as production from the Eni-operated Nikaitchuq and Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska-operated Oooguruk fields.
Information for the most recent month comes from the Alaska Department of Revenue’s Tax Division which reports North Slope oil production consolidated by major production centers and provides daily production and monthly averages. More detailed data, including Cook Inlet and individual North Slope fields and pools, is reported by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on a month-delay basis.
Nikaitchuq June production data from AOGCC showed the field averaged 12,117 bpd, up 1.6 percent from a May average of 11,926 bpd. Oooguruk production averaged 7,114 bpd in June, down 13.8 percent from a May average of 8,255 bpd.
The BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Lisburne field had a greater month-over-month percentage increase, up 10.5 percent, but on a smaller volume, 30,257 bpd in July compared to 27,386 bpd in June. Lisburne production includes Niakuk and Point McIntyre.
Prudhoe, Endicott, Alpine down Other major North Slope production centers — Prudhoe Bay, Endicott and Alpine — all had month-over-month production declines.
The BP-operated Prudhoe Bay field averaged 266,339 bpd in July, down 3.4 percent from a June average of 275,782 bpd. Prudhoe includes production from satellites at Aurora, Borealis, Midnight Sun, Orion and Polaris, as well as from the BP-operated Northstar and Milne Point fields.
The ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine field averaged 60,773 bpd in July, down 4.2 percent from a June average of 63,427 bpd. Alpine includes satellite production from Fiord, Nanuq and Qannik, with June AOGCC data showing the majority of Alpine production, 62.9 percent, was from the main Alpine field, followed by Fiord, which accounted for 32.9 percent. Qannik was 2.9 percent of Alpine production in June; Nanuq accounted for 1.5 percent.
The BP-operated Endicott field averaged 10,994 bpd in July, down 3.1 percent from a June average of 11,342 bpd. Endicott includes production from the Savant Alaska-operated Badami field. AOGCC data shows average June production from Badami at 1,283 bpd, up 5.2 percent from a May average of 1,220 bpd.
Inlet production up 4% Production from Cook Inlet — available from AOGCC on a month-delay basis — averaged 14,135 bpd in June, up 4 percent over May, an increase of some 565 bpd.
The largest month-over-month percent increase was from one of the basin’s smaller fields, Cook Inlet Energy’s Redoubt Shoal, which averaged 563 bpd in June, up 82.7 percent from a May average of 255 bpd.
Among the inlet’s larger fields, the Middle Ground Shoal field, operated by ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO, averaged 2,506 bpd in June, up 14.8 percent from a May average of 2,182 bpd.
The Hilcorp Alaska-operated McArthur River field, the inlet’s most productive, averaged 4,170 bpd in June, up 1.9 percent from a May average of 4,093. The Hilcorp-operated Granite Point field averaged 2,330 bpd in June, up 3.4 percent from a May average of 2,254 bpd. Swanson River, also operated by Hilcorp, averaged 2,449 bpd in June, up 2.8 percent from a May average of 2,383 bpd, while the Hilcorp-operated Trading Bay field averaged 1,420 bpd in June, down 10 percent from a May average of 1,579 bpd.
Cook Inlet Energy’s West McArthur River field averaged 544 bpd in June, down 12.5 percent from a May average of 621 bpd and the Hilcorp-operated Beaver Creek field averaged 153 bpd in June, up 1.7 percent from a May average of 151 bpd.
ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at 2.1 million bpd; Cook Inlet crude oil production peaked in 1970 at more than 227,000 bpd.
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