Big gas find onshore CI
Big gas find onshore CI
NordAq developing Shadura prospect in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Kay Cashman
Petroleum News
NordAq Energy has not officially announced a natural gas discovery at its Shadura prospect in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but amid rumors of a huge find, the independent recently said it expects to produce up to 50 million cubic feet of natural gas per day for Southcentral Alaska consumers over the 30-year life of the project, starting in February 2013.
After months of speculation, NordAq appears to have quietly posted that information on its web page, nordaqenergy.com, on Nov. 4.
The entire Cook Inlet basin produces roughly 245 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, based on a daily average from January through September 2011.
Geologic targets in the Shadura No. 1 exploration well, which NordAq drilled last winter, included the Beluga formation sands between 6,000 and 11,000 feet total vertical depth and upper and middle Tyonek formation sands between 11,000 and 14,500 feet TVD.
Until its recent website posting, about all NordAq President Bob Warthen would say when asked if he had a discovery, was the well confirmed the companys geological and geophysical models and were permitting surface facilities, you figure it out.
Shadura gas can be brought on line quickly, the companys website said, noting it initiated development phase permitting Sept. 1 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the wildlife refuge, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, followed in October by filings with the State of Alaska.
The Shadura No. 1 wildcat well is west of the Swanson River field on the northern Kenai Peninsula, about five miles northeast of the community of Nikiski.
A 2010 environmental assessment done by Entrix on behalf of NordAq for the exploration program said the Shadura No.
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The natural gas will be transported from the pad to the “existing ConocoPhillips Alaska Natural Gas, or CPANG, Nikiski pipeline located outside of the refuge boundary. … (The) 4 miles of gravel road and pipeline will be required to test, develop,
The gas will be transported to the "existing Conoco Phillips Alaska Natural Gas, or CPANG, Nikiski pipeline located outside the refuge boundary. State records show NordAq was created in 2009. Warthen, its president, is a geologist with 42 years of Cook
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