ConocoPhillips is preparing a drilling rig in an effort to pinpoint the cause of a natural gas leak that began at its Alpine development on the North Slope more than two weeks ago, and which the company says has largely been stopped:
ConocoPhillips said it has reduced the gas that was being released at the surface by producing natural gas from the well that was being drilled, and by flowing gas through“The release has largely ceased, and there are only intermittent low levels of natural gas being detected along the CD1 well row,” the company said Monday.
ConocoPhillips has said it’s leading the response but has hired some experts to help, including Wild Well Control out of Houston, Texas, a company that helps stop out-of-control wells. “It’s certainly troubling, and I’m sure it’s troubling to ConocoPhillips and everyone involved, that here we are over two weeks from the identification of the problem and they haven’t been able to figure out what’s going on,” Epstein said.
Some of the families that left Nuiqsut after the leak began have not yet returned, in part because so much remains unknown, according to Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, the village’s mayor. ConocoPhillips has been confident since the start of the event that the community of Nuiqsut is safe, Nuss said.Alaska’s next big North Slope oil project is mired in a feud with ConocoPhillips, and reportedly for sale“We’ve also been confident about safety at our CD1 site, which is the reason we have brought a number of personnel back.”
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