THE LINK: OCTOBER 2023 30 Photos by Judy Patrick Hilcorp Energy has multiple facilities in operation on the Slope. Operators pursue projects to shore up production North Slope operators are busy pursuing other projects besides Willow and Pikka. Two independents, U.K.-based Pantheon Resources and 88 Energy of Australia, working separately, are exploring and, in Pantheon’s case, doing development planning on discoveries south of Prudhoe Bay in the central North Slope. Pantheon said it is mobilizing a workover rig to continue evaluation of one of its discoveries near the Dalton Highway, an all-year road connecting the North Slope oilfields to Interior Alaska’s highways. 88 Energy will begin flow-testing another discovery later this year with the arrival of cold weather, which facilitates operations. The central North Slope finds could be modest in scope, but their location near an existing highway and the Trans Alaska Pipeline System substantially improves the prospects for development. Pantheon told investors in late July it hopes to incrementally develop its discoveries in a series of 20-well pads with modular production facilities and sees considerable upside potential North Slope output dips during seasonal decline
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