Earlier this week I posted about some research I did on a siliciclastic depositional slope system and mentioned how different carbonate depositional slope systems can be. This week's Friday Field Foto ...

ConocoPhillips Alaska has launched drilling to unlock a stubborn pool of slow-moving viscous oil at a new site on the North Slope, the company announced Friday with a tweet. "We've got NEWS (1H)!" the ...

ARCO Alaska Inc. has started the first production from an oil field discovery on the North Slope since 1987. Flow of about 3,000 b/d of oil from a single well in West Beach field began Apr. 8, ...

For three decades, the overarching story of Alaska’s big North Slope oil fields has been one of decline, with production gradually sinking as companies pumped out the most easily-accessible crude. But ...