THE LINK: OCTOBER 2024 30 Developments spur increased focus on output There’s plenty of other work underway on the North Slope beyond construction at the new Pikka and Willow fields. Hilcorp Energy has applied for state permits to develop a new production pad, its Omega Pad, at the southwest corner of the Prudhoe Bay field. This is significant because it will further develop portions of the large reservoir at Prudhoe at its southwest edge, areas that were originally thought uneconomic to produce but now considered viable with new technologies like horizontal drilling. The new pad will be 7.8 miles southwest of Gathering Center 2, one of the six oil and gas gathering and flow stations in the Prudhoe field. It will give access to about 3,500 acres of an undeveloped part of the Prudhoe field area. Hilcorp said it will build a new process facility as well as production wells and utilities to support the new pad. In another development, Finnex Operating, now the owner of the small onshore Mustang field, is North Slope projects continuing forward Work continues on projects both large and small on the North Slope.
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