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The Cook Inlet Basin is a northeast-trending collisional forearc basin that stretches from the Gulf of Alaska into South central Alaska, just east of the Matanuska Valley. It is located in the arc-trench gap between the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith and contains roughly 80,000 cubic miles of sedimentary rocks. [1]
The Cook Inlet Basin contains large oil and gas deposits including several offshore fields. [17] As of 2005 there were 16 platforms in Cook Inlet, the oldest of which is the XTO A platform first installed by Shell in 1964, and newest of which is the Osprey platform installed by Forest Oil in 2000.
Cook Inlet with Knik and Turnagain arms. Turnagain extends in an east–west direction, and is between 40–45 miles (64–72 km) long. It forms part of the northern boundary of Kenai Peninsula, and reaches on the east to within 12 miles (19 km) of Passage Canal, a western branch of Prince William Sound.
The region faces a looming energy crisis due to dwindling gas production in the aging Cook Inlet basin near Anchorage. The phased approach calls for initially building a pipeline, and later ...
The dynamics of Upper Cook Inlet are such that a destructive wave would probably be hours away, so people could be warned in advance, she said. The city and state plan to work on a plan to address ...
Pacific Ocean drainage basin The Seal River is a river in Kenai Peninsula Borough in Alaska , United States. [ 1 ] It is part of the Pacific Ocean drainage basin , and is a tributary of Cook Inlet .
Jul. 8—A looming shortage of Cook Inlet natural gas means a majority of Alaska residents are likely to see a jump in costs in the coming years to heat and power their homes, according to a new ...
Basin size: 192 sq mi (500 km 2) [3] [4] ... to Eagle Bay on Cook Inlet. [5] Boating. Parts of the Eagle River are floatable in a variety of watercraft.