88 Energy (88E) has secured access to the Schrader Bluff 3D seismic dataset, recently released by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Division. The company said the survey provides high-quality subsurface coverage across the North West Hub of its South Prudhoe acreage, adjacent to the Prudhoe Bay Unit.
88 Energy said interpretation of the dataset will support the maturation of multiple prospects, inform an internal update to prospective resource estimates, and help identify and optimise future well locations close to producing fields and existing infrastructure.
In addition, the company said the seismic should help refine structural and stratigraphic interpretation across the South Prudhoe leases, improve correlation of key horizons and reservoir intervals with regional fields and discoveries, and advance prospect definition within the Ivishak and Kuparuk reservoirs as well as the shallower Brookian formations.
88 Energy said the dataset will be incorporated into its internal exploration database to help optimise and support investment for a drilling programme currently scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. It also expects to purchase the Kad River 3D survey release in March 2026, which covers the new Kad River East leases secured in the Fall 2025 North Slope Bid Round.
Going forward, the company expects to release updated internal prospective resource estimates for the South Prudhoe position in the first quarter of calendar year 2026, following interpretation of the Schrader Bluff 3D alongside Storms 3D and other licensed datasets.
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This is a practical de risking step that strengthens 88 Energy’s technical toolkit ahead of its planned 2027 drilling window. With Alaska’s tax credit programme helping bring historic 3D seismic to market at lower cost, the company may be able to tighten its prospect mapping and deliver a clearer resource update in the first quarter of 2026.