...height, in the late-1980s, the pipeline moved 2.1 million barrels of oil a day from the North Slope. Since then, oil production has been declining and throughput has recently averaged about 640,000 barrels a day. Questions were raised during...

...not know whether the slowed drilling activity affected production in 1999. But if drilling remains depressed, then oil production ultimately will suffer, he said. ``The longer the FTC dinks around with this, the longer projects are delayed...

...not know whether the slowed drilling activity affected production in 1999. But if drilling remains depressed, then oil production ultimately will suffer, he said. ``The longer the FTC dinks around with this, the longer projects are delayed...