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The Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, area was developed to house personnel, provide support for drilling operations, and transport oil to the Alaskan pipeline. [2] Prior to 1977, oil seeps (small pores or fissure networks through which liquid petroleum emerges at the surface of the land) [3] on the Arctic coastal plain had caught the attention of the U.S. petroleum interests. [2]
The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
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]
Diagram of Deadhorse Airport. US FAA image. Deadhorse Airport (IATA: SCC, ICAO: PASC, FAA LID: SCC) is a public airport located in Deadhorse on the North Slope of Alaska. It can be accessed from Fairbanks via the Elliott and Dalton highways. It is near Prudhoe Bay and is sometimes also called Prudhoe Airport. The airport from a 737 aircraft
Prudhoe Bay / ˈ p r uː d oʊ / is a census-designated place (CDP) located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 1,310 people, down from 2,174 residents in the 2010 census, and up from just 5 residents in 2000; however, at any given time, several thousand transient workers support the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.
Map from the US Bureau of Land Management showing structures that create the oil fields in Alaska North Slope geologic cross section Geophysical Service Inc. seismic exploration crew, Deadhorse, Alaska, 1981. Under the North Slope is an ancient seabed, which now contains large amounts of petroleum. Within the North Slope, there is a geological ...
The core pipeline itself, which is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, (or The pipeline as referred to by Alaskan residents), is an 800-mile (1,287 km) long, 48-inch (1.22 m) diameter pipeline that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope, south to Valdez, on the shores of Prince William ...
Endicott Island is a 45-acre (18 ha) artificial island located in the U.S. state of Alaska, 2.5 miles (4 km) offshore and 15 miles (24 km) from Prudhoe Bay of the Beaufort Sea. Endicott Island was built in 1987 by Alaska Interstate Construction and is used by BP and Hilcorp Alaska for petroleum production .