Injection well approved for POD inclusion

Petroleum News

Activities on a Beluga River unit injection well, BRU 232-09, have been approved for inclusion in the unit plan of operations for the BRU. No surface expansion or alteration to well infrastructure will occur, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas said in a Jan. 17 lease plan of operations amendment decision.

The well was drilled by Chevron U.S.A. in 1985, the division said, and converted to a Class I injection well by ConocoPhillips Alaska in 2009, before being transferred to Hilcorp Alaska in 2016.

Hilcorp operates the Beluga River unit; Chugach Electric Association is the majority working interest owner.

The well is currently used as a Class I injection well, primarily for BRU waste disposal, but there is also third-party waste disposal using the well, mostly from the Lewis River unit and not part of ongoing operations but only on a project-specific basis.

The division said it has determined that the majority of waste injected into BRU 232-09 is from BRU operations, with de minimus quantities of third-party waste, and therefore it is appropriate to incorporate the well into the BRU plan of operations.

The surface location of BRU 232-09 is in the federally managed portion of BRU on the DW-1 Pad about 1 mile southwest of the Beluga Airport, with surface ownership by the Kenai Peninsula Borough and subsurface ownership by the Bureau of Land Management.

The bottomhole location is offshore on state of Alaska surface and subsurface, in ADL 17592.

--Petroleum News