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The Point Thomson Unit, operated by ExxonMobil on behalf of itself, BP, ConocoPhillips, and other minor owners, is a remote natural gas field located on Alaska's North Slope, approximately 60 ...
An additional component to each option is a gas treatment plant (GTP) and Point Thomson natural gas pipeline. The proposed building site for the GTP would be at the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay facilities which then treats the gas to be shipped in the pipeline. The Point Thomson field would have approximately 58 miles of pipeline to connect ...
Its western coastline is along the Chukchi Sea, while its eastern shores (beyond Point Barrow) are on the Beaufort Sea. The North Slope Borough is the largest county-level political subdivision in the United States by area, with a larger land area than the state of Utah, the 13th-largest state in the nation. Although the adjacent Yukon-Koyukuk ...
Under the North Slope is an ancient seabed, which now contains large amounts of petroleum. Within the North Slope, there is a geological feature called the Barrow Arch — a belt of the kind of rock known to be able to serve as a trap for oil. It runs from the city of Utqiaġvik to a point just west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. [2] [5]
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 originally contained approximately 25 billion barrels (4.0 × 10 9 m 3) of oil. [1]
Cape Thompson is a headland on the Chukchi Sea coast of Alaska. [1] It is located 26 miles (42 km) to the southeast of Point Hope, Arctic Slope.It is part of the Chukchi Sea unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
The residents of the North Slope were the only Native people to vote on the acceptance of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; they rejected it. The Act was passed in December 1971 and, despite their opposition, became law. The Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation is a for-profit village corporation established under the Act.
Initial estimates of the five-day leak said that up to 267,000 US gallons (6,400 bbl) were spilled over 1.9 acres (7,700 m 2), making it the largest oil spill on Alaska's north slope to date. [1] Alaska's unified command ratified the volume of crude oil spilled as 212,252 US gallons (5,053.6 bbl) in March 2008. [2]