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The article focuses on Fairbanks, anchorage and National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), and mentions crude-oil output of Alaska below the peak reached in 1988. Topics discussed include projects to be followed in NPR-A due to Inflation Reduction Act accelerating oil leasing, Naval Petroleum Reserve established by President Warren Harding, and oil companies ' exhausted investment in the state.

The article examines the implications of the renewable energy policy of the administration of U.S. President Joseph Biden for the state of Alaska which depends on the oil and gas industry. Topics discussed include the effect of the suspension of all lease sales on federal land on the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPRA), importance of North Slope fields development to the state economy, and the need for a viable plan in the transition to sustainable energy.

The article profiles David Houseknecht, senior research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey and chief of the Alaska Petroleum Systems Project. Topics discussed include education and career development of Houseknecht, discovery of the National Petroleum Reserve at the Alaska's western North Slope in the 1990s and how intelligence, passion and resources of Houseknecht have proven to be trusted guides to the everunfolding mystery of Alaska.

The article discusses research on the effects of climate change on the Arctic and sub-Arctic. It notes research accommodated by thousands of aerial photographs that were taken of the Naval Petroleum Reserve in northern Alaska during World War II. Climate change is said to be affecting the inhabitants of the Arctic. The article discusses the challenges of monitoring climate change based on changes in vegetation. The author discusses the use of the aforementioned aerial photographs to examine Arctic tundra characterized by short vegetation and permanently frozen subsoil.

The article reports that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) advanced a drilling project by ConocoPhillips in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve, despite environmentalist opposition to the 'carbon bomb.' It mentions that the project's approval may appear to contradict President Joe Biden's green goals, and the Inflation Reduction Act raises royalty rates for drillers, but prohibits BLM from leasing public land for renewables without offering leases for oil and gas development.

The article focuses on the oil explorations in the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 on the North of the Arctic Circle made by Alaska under the U.S. directives. The devastation brought by the World War used up the nation's local reserves and a huge amount of petroleum reserve is predicted in this oil drill. A test site in the Umiat district is conducted showing oil with a low pouring point. Also discussed are the possibility of building a pipeline from the Umiat field and the oil supply from Reserve No. 4.

The article discusses the U.S Senator from Alaska Lisa Murkowski who urged the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to withdraw National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska mitigation strategy draft.

Umiat field in northern Alaska is a shallow, light-oil accumu-lation with an estimated original oil in place of more than 1.5 billion bbl and 99 bcf associated gas. The field, discovered in 1946, was never considered viable because it is shallow, in permafrost, and far from any infrastructure. Modern drilling and production techniques now make Umiat a more attractive target if the behavior of a rock, ice, and light oil system at low pressure can be understood and simulated. The Umiat reservoir consists of shoreface and deltaic sand-stones of the Cretaceous Nanushuk Formation deformed by a thrust-related anticline. Depositional environment imparts a strong vertical and horizontal permeability anisotropy to the reservoir that may be further complicated by diagenesis and open natural fractures. Experimental and theoretical studies indicate that there is a significant reduction in the relative permeability of oil in the presence of ice, with a maximum reduction when connate water is fresh and less reduction when water is saline. A representative Umiat oil sample was reconstituted by comparing the composition of a severely weathered Umiat fluid to a theoretical Umiat fluid composition derived using the Pedersen method. This sample was then used to determine fluid properties at reservoir conditions such as bubble point pressure, viscosity, and density. These geologic and engineering data were integrated into a simulation model that indicate recoveries of 12%--15% can be achieved over a 50-yr production period using cold gas injection from five well pads with a wagon-wheel configuration of multilateral wells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to oil and gas industry as of September 24, 2012. It cites the institution of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the amount of biodiesel products at 1.28 billion gallon (gal) to be included in the U.S. fuel market fuel during 2013. It notes that India has experiencing hard step of raising the controlled diesel price by 5 rupees/liter (l). It mentions the withdrawal of Alaska as a cooperating agency in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

The article features the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) on the west of Prudhoe Bay in North Slope, Alaska. It contends that this place full of wildlife is larger than the Arctic wildlife in the eastern end of North Slope. It argues for the preservation of the place against oil development. It also explores the author's experience of exploring the wilderness at NPR-A.

The article discusses the effects of global warming on Alaska's Porcupine caribou population. Warmer temperatures in the arctic region have resulted in a change in the lichen which caribou eat in the winter months. The caribou's summer food supply is greening fast, but turning brown earlier leaving the caribou with a poor food supply to put on fat with for the winter. The article discusses the habitats for various caribou herds including the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Herd size is linked to habitat variations. INSETS: WHAT'S IN A NAME?;THE ARCTIC REFUGE AND GLOBAL WARMING.

Looks into the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Discovery of some of the oldest bone fossils on the North Slope; Fear of environmentalists that oil development in the NPR-A will ruin the area by leading to facilities such as one located in Prudhoe Bay; Number of barrels of oil produced in the area.

Beaufortian strata (Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous) in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) are a focus of exploration since the 1994 discovery of the nearby Mpine oil field (>400 MMBO). These strata include the Kingak Shale, a succession of depositional sequences influenced by rift opening of the Arctic Ocean Basin. Interpretation of sequence stratigraphy and depositional facies from a regional two-dimensional seismic grid and well data allows the definition of four sequence sets that each displays unique stratal geometries and thickness trends across NPRA. A Lower to Middle Jurassic sequence set includes numerous transgressive-regressive sequences that collectively built a clastic shelf in north-central NPRA. Along the south-facing, lobate shelf margin, condensed shales in transgressive systems tracts downlap and coalesce into a basinal condensed section that is likely an important hydrocarbon source rock. An Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian sequence set, deposited during pulses of uplift on the Barrow arch, includes multiple transgressive-regressive sequences that locally contain well-winnowed, shoreface sandstones at the base of transgressive systems tracts. These shoreface sandstones and overlying shales, deposited during maximum flooding, form stratigraphic traps that are the main objective of exploration in the Alpine play in NPRA. A Valanginian sequence set includes at least two transgressive-regressive sequences that display relatively distal characteristics, suggesting high relative sea level. An important exception is the presence of a basal transgressive systems tract that locally contains shoreface sandstones of reservoir quality. A Hauterivian sequence set includes two transgressive-regressive sequences that constitute a shelf-margin wedge developed as the result of tectonic uplift along the Barrow arch during rift opening of the Arctic Ocean Basin. This sequence set displays stratal geometries suggesting incision and synsedimentary collapse of the... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the discovery of a cache of dinosaur fossils in an Arctic reserve. Details of the paleontological research at Colville River in Alaska by a team which was led by Anthony R. Fiorillo; How the team was limited in their excavation efforts on the isolated tundra on the edge of the National Petroleum Reserve above the Arctic Circle; Evidence of eight pachyrhinosaurus, a member of the Ceratopsidae family; Density of the bone bed called Kikak-Tegoseak; Description of the bones.

Provides information on the National Petroleum Reserve located in Alaska also known for its Arctic national wildlife. Discussion on the restructuring plans being proposed for the Reserve by Alaska's governor and oil industry; Historical information on National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA); Information on the response of president of the United States Bill Clinton, to the campaign.

This section offers news briefs in the oil and gas industry as of November 19, 2018. Topics discussed include Total SA's plans to develop satellite fields on Block 17 offshore Angola, an unconventional gas exploration program to be launched by Total SA and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) in the Diyab play, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) offering of tracts within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).

The article offers information on several tour packages for Alaska and Arctic Canada including a trip to Western Brooks Range Ramble in National Petroleum Reserve, a tour to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska and Kongakut River Expedition in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The article informs that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke issued an updated resource assessment which shows that the National Petroleum Reserve- Alaska, Western Beaufort Sea, adjacent Alaska state and Native lands, and state waters might contain 17.6 billion barrel (bbl) of crude oil.

This article reports that the oil industry is to have free rein in 200,000 hectares of Alaska's northern coastal plain that until now had been off limits to development. The habitat in question is a small portion of the north-east corner of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, which has critical goose moulting sites and caribou calving grounds. Edward Itta, mayor of the North Slope Borough, which covers the reserve, says each president since Reagan has kept this area off limits, but a decision last week by the U.S. Department of the Interior has changed all that. Henri Bisson, Alaskan director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management believes that "subsistence values" will be protected in the areas where land leases are for sale.

Provides information on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). Description of the reserve; Background on the reserve; Proposal to lease the NPR-A.

In this article, the author discusses the prospect to produce petroleum in Alaska in 1998. According to the author, industry advocates make several reasonable-sounding justifications for oil well drilling. He finds that the industry advocates concede, for instance, that petroleum is cheap and plentiful. But even if it was agreed that oil could be taken from the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the author asserts that the harsh working conditions could prevent any oil from flowing for a decade.

The article reports on the signing of the secretarial order by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to start the oil production in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). Topics include the order which also calls on the updated assessment of undiscovered and technically recoverable oil and gas resources in Alaska's North slope (ANS), the congressional support of Zinke's order, and the plan of consulting with the tribes, communities, and Native corporations for the review.

The article focuses on discovery of oil in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska by oil producer company ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. and mentions interest in the discovery of oil by natural gas production company Anadarko Petroleum, success of ConocoPhillips and Anadarko in federal lease sale.

Discusses the efforts of the United States to step up its hunt for fossil fuel as of September 1998. What data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed; Declaration by US Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt that the government would be opening up almost two million hectares of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).

The article reports that oil firm ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. has plans to drill additional oil wells and associated on-pad infrastructure for boosting oil production at its CD5 drill site in Alpine field in the National Petroleum Reserve- Alaska (NPR-A) wherein CD5 pad will accommodate 33 wells.

The article reports on the drilling permit and a right-of-way grant issued by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to oil and gas company ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. for Greater Mooses Tooth Unit within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Information is provided on the compensatory mitigation fund established to finance development of a landscape level Regional Mitigation Strategy and mitigation projects. The benefits of the project in terms of revenue and land development is discussed.