Main Point's:
- Second only to Prudoe among the most oil-rich onshore fields yet found in North America.
- Kuparuk has grown since its opening in 1981 into a scatter shot of gravel well pads connected over 800 square miles by a web of roads and pipes to giant processing plants, camp buildings, vehicles lots, and dark pits full of rock and mud drilled from the deep.
- Alpine is the newest and westernmost of the North Slope oil fields, but not for long.
- When its valves opened in November 2000, crude oil flowed the 50 miles back to Pump Station 1 near Deadhorse- as all oil produced.
- The plant's maximum output of almost 90,000 barrels a day.
- The pipe to Deadhorse can carry much more.
- Alpine the future of the hydrocarbon industry on the North Slope heads in three directions at once.
- It will continue westward into the 23 million-acre NPR-A on which Alpine borders.
- The future may lead southward as well.
- Soaring gas prices spurred North Slope companies last year to commit millions of dollars to plan 10 billion natural gas pipeline.
- Full development of the 1002 area would most likely produce about seven billion barrels of profitable oil.
- 1998 analysis by the U.S Geological Survey, but only if North Slope oil prices remain above $24 a barrel.
- The refuge were opened to exploration this year, oil production from the area would probably begin around 2010.
- The flow of oil would rise to a peak rate around 2030 of roughly one million barrels is a day.
- Just under 4 percent of U.S daily consumption.
- An independent estimate by Jean Laherrere of Petroconsultants in Geneva put the peak flow at just over 700,000 barrels a day however.
- ANWR also probably holds about fourtytrillion cubi feet of natural gas within the 1002 Area, the USGS estimates.
- Gas production would require construction of a new gas pipe line to connect the North Slope to the lower 48 states.
Author Point's:
Many oil companies want to take over the wildlife reservation which can harm and affect most of our last frontier. Also if they took over that last wild life habitat then things can be ruin to us such as, many wild life wouldn't exist and the habitat would be destroy. Such as, drillers no longer dump their cutting and sewage and garbage into surface pits, these are now either burned or injected deep into wells. Also, if the drill pads are served by short air strips rather than long networks of roads, the caribou may fear them less and suffer little displacement. The author point of publishing this article is to tell the world that drilling oil into a reserve area can ruin many things. Their are purpose why this lands is being take care of because their are things that will help us in the future.
Many oil companies want to take over the wildlife reservation which can harm and affect most of our last frontier. Also if they took over that last wild life habitat then things can be ruin to us such as, many wild life wouldn't exist and the habitat would be destroy. Such as, drillers no longer dump their cutting and sewage and garbage into surface pits, these are now either burned or injected deep into wells. Also, if the drill pads are served by short air strips rather than long networks of roads, the caribou may fear them less and suffer little displacement. The author point of publishing this article is to tell the world that drilling oil into a reserve area can ruin many things. Their are purpose why this lands is being take care of because their are things that will help us in the future.
My thought's:
After reading this article its really mad and sad how this oil company wants to drill into a reservoir land. All they think about is the oil that is under that land and just want to drill it because they only care is about money. Most of them didn't even think about the future and how helpful is that oil going to be useful for our country. But some people are just really ignorant and only think for themselves which made me really upset. If this oil company think about the future then they will probably be successful rather than doing it fast.
After reading this article its really mad and sad how this oil company wants to drill into a reservoir land. All they think about is the oil that is under that land and just want to drill it because they only care is about money. Most of them didn't even think about the future and how helpful is that oil going to be useful for our country. But some people are just really ignorant and only think for themselves which made me really upset. If this oil company think about the future then they will probably be successful rather than doing it fast.
So What?
Most of the oil is located in a reservoir areas.
What if?
IF we save that oil then we are prepared for future.
Says who?
anwr.org
What this remind you of?
The goldfish lab.
Most of the oil is located in a reservoir areas.
What if?
IF we save that oil then we are prepared for future.
Says who?
anwr.org
What this remind you of?
The goldfish lab.
