Oil & Gas Projects

Cruz constructed a 40’ wide, 2.9-mile ice road, from Drill Site L3 to Drill Site L5 along the alignment. This ice road had 6 access ramps in various locations and a 3-acre staging pad. This project was completed ahead of schedule, in almost half the anticipated time, even with several additional scopes added on to the work.

In 2020, Cruz Construction began the CASC project, barging 23,500 tons of material to Utqiagvik, constructing a 76-mile snow road to Atqasuk, transporting aggregate, and later delivering over 10,000 tons of specialized materials for airport and road projects, culminating in 2023 with resurfacing the Atqasuk airstrip and replacing its lighting.

Cruz’s work on the Oliktok STP Dock Expansion including construction of the dock, which entailed two pile driving crews working in sync to drive 3,018 sheet pile in 57 days. We worked with skilled divers to install an underwater outfall line.  Cruz also constructed 3.1 miles of onshore ice road and 17 acres of onshore ice pad, 6.4 miles of offshore ice road and 8.5 acres of offshore ice pad.

Cruz Construction completed the Alkaid #2 Project for Great Bear Pantheon, constructing a 2.5-acre gravel pad, access roads, and mobilizing Nabors 105 for drilling and fracking near Dalton Highway Mile 397, hauling 57,888 cubic yards of gravel and providing 24-hour well support.

In winter 2023, Cruz Construction installed a 21.5-acre gravel pad west of Deadhorse, removing over 312,000 LCY of overburden, mining 290,000 CY of gravel, constructing ice roads for gravel haul traffic, and returning in summer for final compaction.

In June of 2015 Caelus Energy decided to move forward with a winter exploration program in Smith Bay, Alaska. The primary objective of the 2015 / 2016 exploration program involved drilling two offshore exploration wells to depths near 6,500’ and 9,500’. Smith Bay is approximately 150 miles from Prudhoe Bay and 130 miles from the nearest road.

Over two winter seasons, the Umiat Exploration project included the construction of 202 miles of snow Trail, 20 miles of Ice Road, Five 500’x 500’ ice pads, 18 significant ice crossings, operation of three camps with approximate peak capacity of 120 people, 729 round trip all-terrain vehicle loads for a total of 147,500 miles of travel including transport and support of Kuukpik Drill Rig 5.

The scope of work required for this project included the mobilization and operation of a 75-bed remote camp, mine site development, construction of three miles of on-shore ice road and 10 miles of offshore ice road to develop the NUNA Gravel Road & Pad for Caelus Energy Alaska.

The Moose Pad project required the expansion of Milne Pit, an existing gravel mine in Kuparuk, to support the construction of a drilling and production gravel pad.

In the fall of 2018 Captivate Energy Alaska selected Cruz Construction to construct and maintain a 12 mile ice road in support of their exploration program. Cruz completed the ice road ahead of schedule and continued to provide maintenance support throughout Captivate throughout their 2018/2019 exploration program.