Work moves ahead at Nicolai Creek field

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

Aurora Exploration is moving ahead with planned development activities in its Nicolai Creek gas field on the west side of Cook Inlet. The company completed the purchase of the field from the bankrupt Aurora Gas at the beginning of January (Aurora Exploration and Aurora Gas are completely separate companies with different ownerships and management).

Scott Pfoff, president of Aurora Exploration, told Petroleum News in a March 19 email that his company has completed the repair of a compressor in the field and that, consequently, gas production has doubled. The company plans the next phase of its development plan, the use of coiled tubing to clear sand from some key wells, in the second quarter of this year. The company expects the well clean out to triple production, Pfoff said.

The development plan for the field also envisages the drilling of an additional development well in the field later in the year.

- ALAN BAILEY