Furie completes Kitchen Lights well

Furie Operating Alaska has completed the drilling of its Kitchen Lights Unit No. 3 well in Alaska’s Cook Inlet and is proceeding to case and test the well, Damon Kade, the company’s president, told Petroleum News May 24.

“We’ve finished drilling and we’re moving to the subsea phase of the operation,” Kade said, adding that Furie is keeping the results of the drilling confidential for the time being. The well, targeting natural gas, reached a depth of around 10,000 feet, he said.

Furie is exploring for oil and gas in the offshore Kitchen Lights unit using the Spartan 151 jack-up rig that it brought to Cook Inlet in 2011. In the fall of that year the company announced a significant gas find in its first Cook Inlet well, the Kitchen Lights Unit No. 1. During the summer of 2012 the company re-entered that well and then drilled a second Kitchen Lights well, to assess the gas discovery.

In April Kade told Petroleum News that the No. 3 well would further test the discovery.

“We’ve got to prove it up and that’s the next step really right now,” he said.

However, Furie plans to drill a further well during the 2013 drilling season to test an oil prospect in the Kitchen Lights unit. The company has not yet decided which particular prospect in the unit to explore, Kade said.

Furie is moving ahead with plans to install an offshore monopod platform to develop its Kitchen Lights gas find. In April Kade said that permitting for the platform had been proceeding and that the company had already obtained the necessary U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for work in U.S. waters. The plan is to install the platform in 2014, with gas production starting in the fourth quarter of 2014 at the latest, he said.

—Alan Bailey