On Nov. 2 Santos subsidiary Oil Search (Alaska), as operator of the North Slope Pikka unit, filed a 2024 plan of development with the Alas-ka Department of Natural Resources. The POD was also submitted to Arctic Slope Regional Corp., since part of the Pikka acreage is on Native land; none is on fede.
After a lull of a couple of years as a consequence of the COVID pandemic, oilfield development drilling on the North Slope and in the Cook Inlet region picked up significantly in 2022, according to data available on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission website.
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Alaska North Slope production averaged 454,516 barrels per day in September, up 7%, 29,897 bpd, from an August average of 424,619 bpd but down 3.9% from a September 2022 average of 473,179 bpd, with the majority of Slope fields seeing month-over-month increases. ANS crude averaged 407,407 bpd in Sep.