...third drilled from an oshore production pad built near Oliktok Point, on the Beaufort Sea coast north of the producing Kuparuk River field. The remaining wells would be drilled from an offshore gravel production island that would be built three miles...

...spending in Alaska by fifteen percent. When the operators of North America's two largest oil fields - Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River - significantly reduce their Alaska business, Alaskans should be very concerned. In addition to commodity price fluctuations...

...Alaska oil. Total petroleum revenues for fiscal year 2007 are projected at more than $5 billion.) Northwest of the Kuparuk River unit, Pioneer Alaska Natural Resources expects to become the North Slope's first independent producer when its Oooguruk...

...development work in producing fields on the North Slope, mainly in the Prudhoe Bay field B, where BP is operator, and Kuparuk River field operated by ConocoPhillips, but where BP has a major interest. The deteriorating economic environment has had...

...ANCHORAGE - Arco Alaska Inc. has increased to 1,400 gallons an estimate of oil sprayed from a pipeline leak at the Kuparuk River oilfield. Arco at first said about 550 gallons sprayed from a pinhole leak, covering about 2,1000 square fee...