Alaska

Journal Article · Sun Jun 20 04:00:00 EDT 1971 · Offshore; (United States)

OSTI ID:5604161

While the debate goes on over how the North Slope's oil is to be brought to market, offshore fields in Cook Inlet provide the production that keeps Alaska in eighth place among the nation's oil-producing states. Four of the state's 6 producing oil fields are in the waters of Cook Inlet. They are putting out 175,700 b/d, or 84.3% of the state's current output of 208,500 b/d. The remainder of the oil comes from the Swanson River field on the Kenai Peninsula and from the single well on production in the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay field. Drilling has ceased from the 14 platforms used to develop the Cook Inlet's 4 producing oil fields and one producing gas field. The emphasis now is on production. Water flooding plays an important role in the Cook Inlet production picture. For each barrel of oil produced from the Inlet's 4 producing oil fields, operators inject more than 1 bbl of water. Oil is only one part of the Alaska production picture. Seven gas fields are also on production, putting out about 420,237 Mcf per day. The major share of gas comes from the Kenai and North Cook Inlet fields in the Cook Inlet Basin. Gas from the Kenai and North Cook Inlet fields provides the raw material for 2 multi-million-dollar plants on the Kenai Peninsula: Collier Carbon and Chemical Corp. $50 million ammonia-urea plant and Phillips Petroleum Co.-Marathon Oil Co. $50 million liquefied natural gas plant.

• OSTI ID: 5604161
• Journal Information: Offshore; (United States), Journal Name: Offshore; (United States) Vol. 31:7; ISSN OFSHA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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