Solid waste treatment permit for GMT

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has published a public notice for a solid waste treatment permit for ConocoPhillips Alaska’s Greater Mooses Tooth.

ADEC said the permit application for the operation of two grind and inject facilities and accompanying temporary storage cells is complete and said it is proposing to issue a comprehensive solid waste permit to include both facilities.

Unit 1 will operate at pads in the Greater Mooses Tooth unit and the Colville River unit; unit 2 will be located at CD1, the main pad, in the Colville River unit.

ADEC said the permit will include the existing mobile G&I facility, a new stationary G&I facility and associated temporary storage cells. The facilities will be operated for storage and treatment of drilling waste and non-hazardous petroleum contaminated soil prior to injection into a permitted underground injection control well.

Comments are due before 5 p.m., March 28.

Greater Mooses Tooth is in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Production began from GMT-1 in early October.

A joint record of decision for GMT-2 by the federal Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was issued Oct. 15. Three construction seasons are planned, beginning with gravel laying in early 2019 and first oil anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2021.

- KRISTEN NELSON