Phillips proposes Kuparuk development well - March 28, 2001

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMarch 2001

Vol. 6, No. 3

Week of March 28, 2001

Phillips proposes Kuparuk development well

Kristen Nelson

Phillips Alaska Inc. is permitting a development well, the Stampede, at an old drill site within the Kuparuk River unit. The site, now called 1M but formerly known as Mobil Phillips 1, is on the far east side of the Kuparuk River unit.

An existing road may be used to transport the drill rig, but because this road has not been maintained, an ice road may be required.

Drill cuttings and liquids from the Stampede project will be temporarily stored in an ice-bermed drilling waste storage cell on the drill site. The state said the work should be completed by August.

The Stampede development well will evaluate the Kuparuk formation. Mobil Oil Corp. drilled a development well into the Kuparuk formation at this location in 1981. The well had a total depth of 8,850 feet and a vertical depth of 6,949 feet and was plugged back to 8,780 feet and suspended May 30, 1981.

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