Dillon wells shut in, Baker still producing

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

Unocal Alaska said in October that it would be shutting in the Dillon and Baker platforms in Cook Inlet.

Unocal Alaska spokeswoman Roxanne Sinz told Petroleum News Alaska that shutting in of wells on the Dillon platform was completed in early December. The tank, vessel and piping cleaning—in preparation for “lighthouse” operations—began in early January and is expected to take two or three months, Sinz said.

Dillon is expected to be in lighthouse mode in early June.

Sinz said wells on the Baker platform are still producing.

“We are re-evaluating timing of suspension for this facility,” she said.

Baker began production in 1965, Dillon in 1966.

“It has been determined that they have reached their economic limit, and because they are no longer profitable we will shut then in,” Sinz told PNA in October.

Unocal expected to shut Dillon in near the end of 2002, and Baker by the end of the first quarter of 2003.