Hilcorp’s Spartan 151 rig is drilling two wells for Furie, the Anchorage-based gas company, at an offshore platform in Cook Inlet, the Julius R. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)
SPARTAN 151 RIG, COOK INLET — Deep below the ocean floor outside Anchorage this spring, a huge drill bit chewed through multi-million-year-old sandstone, sending crushed bits of rock back to the surface through a mile-long hole…