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.
North Slope, the Prudhoe Bay unit operator, has filed a unit plan of operations amendment with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas for the EWE, Eileen West End, pipelines project. This follows an application the company filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ea.
On the surface, the biggest development at the neighboring Oooguruk unit and Nikaitchuq unit in the nearshore state waters of the Beaufort Sea is renewed drilling.
After the uncertainty of the worst of the pandemic years, operator Eni US Operating Co. Inc. is planning another active year of drilling.
Hilcorp Alaska started operating in Cook Inlet in 2012, after acquisitions in 2011, and moved onto the North Slope in 2014, acquiring BP Exploration (Alaska)
ConocoPhillips is now gearing up for its big Willow project on the North Slope, while Santos Ltd, an Australian company, already has construction underway on its Pikka project, also on