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Borealis moves forward
Kay Cashman
Petroleum News
In preparation for exploratory drilling next winter in its Castle North prospect in the northeastern National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, Borealis Alaska Oil Inc. applied for an Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. That plan, which is comprehensive and covers the companys exploration drilling operations for all its NPR-A North Slope oil and gas prospects, is out for a 30-day public review that ends June 7 at 11:59 p.m. AKT.
In NPR-A, the Borealis leases lie in what the Anchorage-based independent named the Castle prospect trend, a series of six individual Brookian prospects in the lower Nanushuk formation. Southwest of Willow, the prospects are directly analogous to the geologic setting for major oil discoveries at Pikka, under development by Oil Search (Alaska), and by ConocoPhillips at Willo