ConocoPhillips plans to expand KRU 3S pad

Petroleum News

ConocoPhillips Alaska, operator of the Kuparuk River unit, has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas to expand Drill Site 3S at Kuparuk with four new wells planned.

The division said in a March 28 public notice that the plan proposes placing 10,100 cubic yards of gravel on 1.33 acres of tundra, with some 1.07 acres on the west end of the pad for the new wells and the remaining 0.26 acres on the south side to support a new remote electrical and instrumental module. All work will be from existing gravel, with work scheduled to begin May 1.

In its March 14 application ConocoPhillips said in support of the new wells they would be installing piping, vertical support members, thermosyphons, well houses, mouseholes, modules, access platforms, cable trays and other infrastructure.

--Petroleum News