A good explanation of why we use ice roads. From Petroleum News (www.petroleumnews.com), Vol. 12, No. 34, Week of August 26, 2007, courtesy of Rose Ragsdale.
Frozen byways offer vanishing footprint
Ice roads, winter byways that disappear with breakup in spring, are efficient and indispensable aids to oil and gas exploration on the North Slope. These [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Ice Roads
Posted in Alaska, Ice Roads, Oil, Prudhoe Bay, tagged Ice Roads, North Slope on August 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A Delicate Balance Between Gas & Oil
Posted in AOGCC, Alaska, Oil, Prudhoe Bay, tagged Alaska, AOGCC, Gas, North Slope, Oil on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A clear explanation of the fine balance between producing crude oil or natural gas from a field, from the Anchorage Daily News (Wesley Loy), published June 10, 2007:
BP Pipeline Upkeep
Posted in Alaska, BP, Oil, Prudhoe Bay, tagged Alaska, BP, Corrosion, Oil, Oil Spill, Pipelines, Prudhoe Bay on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Anchorage Daily News (Wesley Loy):
BP lacked a good process for assessing corrosion risk in Prudhoe Bay pipelines, and corrosion fighters were forced to make “tradeoffs” to meet budget targets, a BP-hired consultant found.
The report from Booz Allen Hamilton, a McLean, Va., consulting firm, emerged May 16 as BP’s top U.S. executive, Bob Malone, [...]
