AOGCC issues two Repsol permits

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission recently issued permits for Repsol E&P USA Inc. to drill two exploration wells on the North Slope, according to records.

The AOGCC issued permits for the Qugruk No. 5 and Tuttu No. 1 wells on Dec. 26.

The Qugruk No. 5 well on ADL 391452 will appraise a discovery the company made last year at the Qugruk prospect near the Beaufort Sea coast. The Tuttu No. 1 on ADL 391443 will be an exploration well in the Schrader Bluff/West Sak area near the Kuparuk River unit. Previous exploration efforts in the region called the prospect Rock Flour.

Repsol recently hired Global Geophysical Services Inc. to shoot 3-D seismic this winter over some 293 square miles in the Schrader Bluff area south of the Kuparuk River unit.

Repsol previously announced plans to drill a third well this winter. The proposed Qugruk No. 7 well would also appraise the hydrocarbon discoveries near the Beaufort Sea.

—Eric Lidji

—A copyrighted oil and gas lease map from Mapmakers Alaska was a research tool used in preparing this story.