Alaska regulators have ordered ConocoPhillips Alaska to pay nearly $1 million in penalties for a well blowout that led to a weeks-long release of natural gas and a brief evacuation at the company’s Alpine oil field. (via AlaskaBeacon)
ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. to pay nearly $1 million in penalties for a well blowout that led to a weeks-long release of natural gas and a brief evacuation at the company’s Alpine oil field.
on June 28. ConocoPhillips, which did not appeal the findings issued last month, has 10 days to pay the total, the AOGCC said.The order brings to a close the AOGCC’s investigation into the gas at the CD1 well site in the Alpine field, one of the largest in Alaska. The release was discovered on March 4, 2022, and traced to freeze-protection well work done in the days prior.
Among the most serious of the violations was a failure to use cement to seal the well’s outer rim in a geologic zone that the company assumed did not contain hydrocarbons. ConocoPhillips had evidence that the zone, called Halo, contained gas, but it opted against protecting the well against gas intrusions, the AOGCC investigation report said.
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