Explorers 2023: Stringing the pearls.

The "string of pearls" is the "billion-dollar fairway" of the eastern North Slope

Eric Lidji

for Petroleum News

Imagine the North Slope developed the other direction. Here's what actually happened. The Prudhoe Bay unit came online in 1977 and was followed a few years later by the Kuparuk River unit to the west. Then came the Alpine field at the Colville River unit, and more recently the first producing fields....

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