Hey DRD, question concerning oil and gas production from North Slope fields, do you know what kind of daily prooduction for natural gas decs/day or mmcfd? How about crude oil production daily bbl/m3? Is the crude light, medium or heavy, sweet or sour? Are the gas wells high or low pressure? Would be nice to hear from an operator rather then a pencil pusher...

Thanks

 

I found this site http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/...922/892206.PDF when I was doing a little research before I went up there. It's gives a pretty good idea of what's there. I don't have any first hand idea of what production is. I think it's all fairly high pressure, I believe the oil wells free flow. As for the gas side it must be fairly high pressure also, the gas coming into our compressors is at 1200 PsiG suction and discharge is 4500 PsiG (reinjection). There isn't the infrastructure to export the gas yet so it's put back into the resevoir.

 

Wow, 1200 psi suction!!! Thats higher than any line pressure around here! 4500 discharge is just nutz...

 

Thnx DRD for reply/info, 1200psi suction...geez this plant I operate at now barely gets to 1100psi disch to sales line...850psi during winter months!! Course now if we wnet back a few 15 or 25yrs..use to have pressures like that.

 

4500 is starting to get up there. Anytime I see tail rod packing and billet cylinders coupled with sour trim it means OT.