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Oil discovered in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay | March 12, 1968 | HISTORY

Oil discovered in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. On March 12, 1968, oil is discovered in Prudhoe Bay—a remote region along Alaska's northernmost coast— ...

March 13, 1968: Oil discovered on Alaska's North Slope

March 13, 1968: Oil discovered on Alaska's North Slope ... The Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refining Company announce the discovery of oil on the ...

Prudhoe Bay Oil Field - Wikipedia

Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in North America, covering 213,543 acres (86,418 ha) and ...

1968: Oil found in Prudhoe Bay; Alaska Native claims delay pipeline

Atlantic Richfield Oil Company announces the discovery of enormous gas and petroleum reserves in Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope. With other companies, it ...

Oil discovered on Alaska's North Slope

The Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refining Company announce the discovery of oil on the North Slope of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay ...

Alaska's 40 Years Of Oil Riches Almost Never Was - NPR

Initial estimates were that Prudhoe Bay held 9.6 billion barrels of oil – at the time, it was the biggest oil discovery in North America. It's ...

Discovery at Prudhoe Bay: OIL - Hancock House Publishers

Discovery at Prudhoe Bay - is the story behind the greatest North American oil discovery success ever the Prudhoe Bay discovery in Alaska and the building of ...

Prudhoe Bay

Upon acquisition of ARCO by BP and sale of ARCO Alaska assets to. Phillips Petroleum, the two operating areas were consolidated and BP became.

History of Northern Alaska Petroleum Development

... discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska offered the U.S. the promise of a significant new source of competitive domestic supply on a ...

The Discovery of Oil on the North Slope | American Experience - PBS

The last time he saw Prudhoe Bay was in the 1980s, and by then the North Slope was completely transformed. Jerry Landgrebe: "It was all massive buildings ...

Alaska's oil and gas industry - Resource Development Council

Alaska's North Slope has responsibly produced more than 18 billion barrels of oil since the discovery of the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Oil production has been the ...

Industry History - Alaska Oil & Gas Association

Prudhoe Bay, largest oil field in North America, discovered (production begins 1977). Largest fertilizer plant on the West Coast opens in Kenai using Cook Inlet ...

Our history | ConocoPhillips Alaska

1 well, struck oil and gas in April 1967. The completion of a second well in March 1968 confirmed the discovery of the super-giant Prudhoe Bay Field, the ...

Oil: Alaska's Black Gold Rush - AlaskaKids

In 1968, Atlantic Richfield geologists hit oil at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Coast. It was the strike that changed everything. That discovery sparked the biggest ...

History of BP in Alaska - Alaskanomics

BP began its Alaska exploration in 1959 and discovered the super-giant Prudhoe Bay oil field on the North Slope in 1969 along with Atlantic Richfield and ...

Prudhoe bay: Discovery of Alaska's oil giant - World Oil

Richfield Oil Corp. began running seismic survey crews on the northern coast of Alaska, bordering the Arctic Ocean, in 1963. The Prudhoe structure was ...

Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Alaska, 1986 - GRID-Arendal

On March 2, 2006, a a large oil spill was discovered in western Prudhoe Bay. Up to 1,010,000 liter were spilled, making it the largest oil spill on Alaska's ...

Introduction Early exploration and oil prospecting in Alaska was ...

Development of Pre-1980 Discoveries. Prior to 1980 – 15 reservoirs had been discovered on the Arctic Slope including Prudhoe Bay. The other 14 reservoirs ...

NPR: Alaska's 40 Years of Oil Riches Began With One Man's ... - JPT

Production from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay started 40 years ago this month. But the discovery of the giant oil field that started it all almost ...

Greater Prudhoe Bay - ConocoPhillips Alaska

After more than 40 years of production, Prudhoe Bay remains the largest oil field in North America and ranks among the 20 largest fields ever discovered ...