May production up 3.7 percent from April

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

May Alaska North Slope production was up an average 39,486 barrels a day from April, led by a 14,963 barrel-a-day average increase at Prudhoe Bay (up 2.5 percent from April) and a 10,838 barrel-a-day average increase at Endicott (up 29.3 percent from April).

Endicott field operator BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has begun enhanced oil recovery at the field and has also upgraded the field’s two main gas compressor trains.

North Slope production averaged 1,118,669 barrels a day in May, up from an average of 1,079,183 barrels a day in April. Prudhoe Bay production averaged 604,127 barrels a day, up from 589,164 in April. Kuparuk River field production (including Tarn, Tabasco and West Sak) averaged 272,003 barrels a day in May, up 2.38 percent from 265,671 barrels a day in April. Milne Point production averaged 56,441 barrels a day, up 4.4 percent from 54,049 barrels a day in April. Endicott averaged 47,816 barrels a day in May, up 29.3 percent from an average of 36,978 barrels a day in April. Lisburne production center (production from Point McIntyre, Niakuk and Lisburne) averaged 138,282 barrels a day in May, up 3.72 from an average of 133,321 barrels a day in April.

Cook Inlet production averaged 30,171 barrels a day in May, down 0.8 percent from an average of 30,419 barrels a day in April.