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...reported slightly declining revenues in Alaska, but vanishing profits, as the company ended work on an a costly offshore oil field.BP Exploration (Alaska) the subsidiary of the huge multi-national oil company BP, reported Tuesday that it...
...the system and an indictment is not a finding," Colberg said. BP hopes to open Northstar field ANCHORAGE - An offshore oil field in the Arctic Ocean could be back up and running in about 10 days, a spokesman for BP said Wednesday. "We're...
ANCHORAGE - BP has shut down an offshore oil field in the Arctic Ocean after a small leak was discovered in a gas line, a company official said Tuesday. Sound off on the important...
...been "very proactive and made a good-faith effort to address the problems." Although the valves are common in offshore oil fields, Alaska is among the few places in the country that require oil companies to install them at onshore wells, according...
...the state wrongly approved development of the first offshore oil field near Prudhoe Bay. Greenpeace contended that the...175-million-barrel field of recoverable oil is the first offshore oil field off Alaska's northern coast. Drilling is done...
...hires will include engineers and others needed for such North Slope projects as a subsea drilling effort at a new offshore oil field, according to BP officials. Adding 200 people would increase BP's Alaska employment by 15 percent. State labor...
...days and a fine of up to $1,000. The activists boarded the 420-foot barge early Monday to protest BP's new offshore oil field, called Northstar, as it headed for the field 200 miles east of Barrow. The barge, then about 70 miles east of...
...National Guard helicopter from Nome picked up the backpackers. BP brings Northstar field back online ANCHORAGE - An offshore oil field in the Arctic Ocean has been brought back on line, a BP spokesman said. The Northstar field was producing about...
...gambles. BP spent $2 billion to drill the Mukluk well in 1982. It was the most expensive dry hole in history. Offshore oil fields in Alaska typically take longer and cost more to bring into production. Only large finds can offset high costs...
...days and a fine of up to $1,000. The activists boarded the 420-foot barge early Monday to protest BP's new offshore oil field, called Northstar, as it headed for the field 200 miles east of Barrow. The barge, then about 70 miles east of...