The North Slope of Alaska produces about 630, 000 barrels of oil a day about 9% of total U.S. output.
And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: We've got lots of both.
And there are companies other than BP that are up on the North Slope, so their jobs should not be affected.
Edward S. Itta served as the Mayor of the North Slope Borough of Alaska from 2005 to 2011.
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Offshore oil production could help refill the pipeline just when the flow from the North Slope is projected to reach critical lows.
In the U.S., major federal industry partnerships have been formed in both the Gulf of Mexico and on the North Slope of Alaska.
Hence decades worth of hand-wringing over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the (current) closing of large areas of the North Slope to oil drilling.
It also announced plans to boost investment in the North Slope fields in Alaska after the Alaskan Legislature lowered taxes on the oil industry.
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The Gwich'in are united in their opposition to oil development, but neighboring Inupiat Eskimos on the North Slope are more divided on the issue.
The company that operates the Trans Alaska Pipeline told operators on the North Slope to cut crude production by 95%, after discovering an oil leak.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day--13% of U.S. demand--to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day 13% of U.S. demand to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
The most ambitious project is the 3, 600-mile Alaskan pipeline, which will run from the North Slope along the Alcan Highway through the Yukon and British Columbia.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates more than 90 billion barrels of oil and nearly 1, 700 trillion cubic feet of natural gas may be recoverable by drilling in the North Slope area.
In a big blow for Royal Dutch Shell, the Obama administration has blocked the drilling of exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean off the North Slope of Alaska until 2011 at the earliest.
The North Slope natural gas hydrates make up 11.5 percent of the volume of gas within all other undiscovered, technically recoverable gas resources in the United States -- frozen or not, the USGS estimated.
Separately, in August, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, signed a bill allowing TransCanada Alaska to build a 1, 715-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay to Alberta, Canada.
From 1977 to 1995, Mr. Itta worked for the North Slope Borough, ultimately serving in a number of leadership positions including Chief Administrative Officer, Public Works Director, Planning Director, and Director of Capital Improvement Program Management.
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Another U.S. gas hoard ripe for export is on the North Slope of Alaska, where for decades operators led by BP have been reinjecting associated gas recovered from Prudhoe Bay and other oil fields back into the ground.
The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.
Before serving as mayor, Mr. Itta held a variety of project management and development positions for Arctic Slope World Services and the Arctic Slope Consulting Group from 1998 to 2004, where he was involved in the engineering and coordination of the North Slope Village water and sewer construction program.
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Shell began work on its planned well in the Chukchi Sea, about 90 miles off the Alaskan North Slope, on Sunday.
"The coastal plain of the refuge is only a tiny fraction of the entire North Slope of Alaska, " he argued, waving his hand in a wide arc.
"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.
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The mapping was primarily done along the continental slope, where the North American continent ends and drops into the Atlantic Ocean basin.
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An estimated 85.4 trillion cubic feet of "undiscovered, technically recoverable gas" is frozen in the state's North Slope region, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released by the Interior Department.
The 800-mile pipeline, owned by a BP PLC-led consortium, carries about 670, 000 barrels of oil a day 13% of U.S. production from Alaska's North Slope the length of the state to Port Valdez.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
About 30 miles north of Mystic, the Blue Slope Country Museum in Franklin is essentially a celebration of all things bucolic.
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