RE: Gravel pad this month.18 May 2025 18:52
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Easy there, LordOfMud! One of the key benefits of PANR's acreage is that operations can be carried out within the disturbed corridor on each side of the Dalton pretty much all year round. Yes, you have correctly noted the schedule of operations submitted to the SoA DNR but these dates are advisory only. With the permission of the regulator, the dates are easily amended. PANR and other Alaskan operators frequently depart from the timetable as initially outlined in the permitting process.
Let's all be crystal clear on the following. If the SoA and Glenfarne are to get anywhere close to delivering Phase 1 of the Alaska LNG project, being the gasline, then PANR will be required to drill and LTPT a well which will prove conclusively PANR's ability to deliver the crucial non-corrosive, low CO2 natural gas on which Phase 1 depends entirely.
Don't know about you, LordOfMud, but before PANR commits shareholder funds to the Dubhe-1 well I want Bob's technical team to have analysed *every single piece of data* recovered from *all* of the flow tests at Megrez-1. If that means we have to be patient for a couple of months then that's fine by me. We know from the application that PANR has three locations/well designs in mind for the Dubhe-1 well. The application expressly informs the regulator (and us) that the final selection will *depend* on the analysis of the results from Megrez-1.
Capital is far too precious to be slapdash in selecting the location and design of the next well. All eyes will be on PANR's proof of deliverability of low CO2 natural gas, from the likes of the SoA, Glenfarne, Asian governments and utilities, the Alaskan utilities, the Alaskan legislature, the White House (yes, seriously), the Depts of Interior/Energy/EPA, the financial backers of the gasline and LNG export project, and likely many more.
I most definitely *do not wish* PANR to get moving on Dubhe-1, and committing capital, before they've made a clear-eyed and fully infoirmed decision on the location/well design having comprehensively analysed *all* the data from Megrez-1.
I'd urge forum members to chill on Dubhe-1 and to accept that Megrez-1 and the flow test data rightly remains the focus for the company for the next couple of months or so.