Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in both the United States and in North America. It coverers 213,543 acres (86,418 ha) and originally contained about 25 billion barrels (4.0×109 m3) of oil.[1] It has twice as much recoverable oil as the next largest field in the United States, the East Texas oil field. The field is operated by British Petroleum. Its partners are ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips Alaska.
Location
The field is located 400 miles (640 km) north of Fairbanks.[1] It is on the North Slope and lies between the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska to the west and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the east.
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Media
A map of northern Alaska; the dotted line shows the southern boundary of the North Slope. The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska is to the West, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the east, and Prudhoe Bay is between them. Red lines are pipelines.
Caribou near Prudhoe Bay, 1973
1971 aerial photo of the oil fields by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Roger MacBride touring the oil field facilities during his 1976 presidential campaign.
Oilfield facilities at Prudhoe Bay.
Sadlerochit stratigraphic column
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Prudhoe Bay Fact Sheet Archived 2008-10-30 at the Wayback Machine. BP. August 2006. (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)
