The planet's deepest well 09/13/2009
Tiber among U.S. Gulf's biggest discoveries, but will require new technologies to develop
BP's recent self-described "giant" oil discovery at the Tiber prospect in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico's Keathley Canyon, situated about 25 to 30 miles from Kaskida, another monster BP Lower Tertiary disco...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Anadarko to drill first ANS gas well 11/18/2007
Has two rigs under contract, drilling 2 Brooks Range gas prospects, going back to finish Jacob's Ladder
Anadarko Petroleum and its partners in the Brooks Range Foothills, BG Alaska and Petro-Canada, plan to drill the first two natural gas exploration wells in northern Alaska this winter. Gas discoveries...

30 STRONG: Engineering ingenuity pays off 10/14/2007
EOR techniques developed over three decades succeed beyond developers' wildest dreams
Getting more oil out of the ground is a technical challenge that teams of engineers tackled from Day 1 on the North Slope. More than 30 years later, the brainstorming that produced and perfected a se...

30 STRONG: Gravel use has technical challenges 10/14/2007
Oil industry, regulators join forces on slope, convert mines into fish, waterfowl habitat
Among the most visible and enduring signs of the oil industry's presence on the North Slope are the gravel roads, pads and airstrips scattered across the tundra. While these piles of pulverized rock f...

30 STRONG: Extending the drilling envelope 10/14/2007
Evolving technologies enable extraction of more and more oil from Alaska's North Slope
In these days of high-speed computers, modern home comforts and rapid transportation, many people are probably unaware of something that's critical to maintaining their standard of life: high-tech oil...

First at Endicott 10/14/2007
There have been some "tremendous firsts" at Endicott, John Denis, east resources manager for BP Exploration (Alaska)'s Alaska consolidated team, said in an Oct. 9 interview. In addition to being "the...

Poised for the future 10/14/2007
Endicott: low salinity pilot startup set for '08; Liberty drilling projected
Endicott, the first offshore Arctic island production facility, celebrated its 20th anniversary in early October. First production was Oct. 3, 1987, said John Denis, east resources manager for BP Exp...

ANS production down 1% in September 10/07/2007
Led by a 16.7 percent production drop at greater Prudhoe Bay, the BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Prudhoe Bay and Lisburne fields, total Alaska North Slope crude production dropped 1.4 percent in Sep...

State of Alaska investigates BP fires 09/16/2007
Four incidents within a month are too many, Department of Natural Resources says; wants to find out if there is systemic problem
Following a fourth BP North Slope fire incident in five weeks, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources has sent a team to the North Slope to look at the oilfield infrastructure involved and to inve...

Engineering ingenuity returns big payoff 08/19/2007
Prudhoe Bay teams develop enhanced oil recovery techniques over three decades that succeed beyond their wildest dreams
Getting more oil out of the ground is a technical challenge that teams of engineers tackled from Day 1 on the North Slope. More than 30 years later, the brainstorming that produced and perfected a se...

Gravel use presents technical challenges 08/05/2007
Oil industry, regulators join forces to meet challenges on Alaska's North Slope, convert abandoned mines into fish, waterfowl habitat
Among the most visible and enduring signs of the oil industry's presence on the North Slope are the gravel roads, pads and airstrips scattered across the tundra. While these piles of pulverized rock f...

Oil Patch Insider 08/05/2007
Oil sands grind down doubter BP; Alaska exploration buzz baseless, says BP; Palin calls PPT special session
BP likes spreading the message that its initials stand for Beyond Petroleum. How about Behind our Peers? Well, that was the case until this year when the global supermajor decided to clamber aboard th...

Prudhoe crude output down 10% in June 07/08/2007
Greater Prudhoe Bay production (including Lisburne) was down 10.6 percent in June, averaging 343,551 barrels per day compared to 384,291 bpd in May. Lisburne dropped only 1.4 percent, averaging 19,982...

Board sets TAPS' value at $4.6B, owners appeal to Superior Court 06/10/2007
The Alaska Assessment Review Board disappointed both oil companies and several local governments by announcing the trans-Alaska pipeline system, at least for tax purposes, is worth $4.6 billion. Muni...

BP restarts Gathering Center 2 06/03/2007
BP restarted Gathering Center 2 at Prudhoe Bay May 25. The restart occurred early in the morning, said BP spokesman Daren Beaudo, following "a thorough startup procedure and checklist." He said BP e...

Gathering Center 2 shut down by leak 05/27/2007
BP Exploration Alaska has shut in about 100,000 barrels per day at Prudhoe Bay after a leak was discovered inside Gathering Center 2 May 21. BP spokesman Daren Beaudo told Petroleum News that 12 well...

Shippers, state praise 'first step' 05/27/2007
Alaska officials and shippers Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Tesoro Alaska Co. have hailed a federal judge's decision to lower tariffs for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline as "important" and beneficial. B...

TAPS rates too high 05/27/2007
FERC judge says Alaska pipeline owners double-dipped to justify tariffs
A federal judge May 17 ordered owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to slash nearly in half tariffs they propose to charge for crude shipments, a move likely to generate substantially higher revenu...

Truck spills diesel at Prudhoe Bay 04/15/2007
A tanker truck spilled nearly 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel onto a frozen pond and the tundra near a Prudhoe Bay oil drilling site over the weekend, state environmental officials said April 9. The dri...

Northstar shutdown brings ANS down 3% 03/11/2007
Field was shut down Feb. 17 after discovery of pinhole gas leak; returns to production March 7, by March 8 producing 33,000 bpd
BP's Northstar oil field returned to production in early March, after having been shutdown in mid-February, a shutdown which dropped Alaska North Slope oil production to an average of 774,837 barrels...

Facilities piping gas leak shuts in Northstar 02/25/2007
Alaska North Slope production was down more than 40,000 barrels per day following shut in of the offshore Northstar field Feb. 17. A pinhole leak was discovered in piping on the gas compression side...

Former federal judge to investigate maintenance allegations against BP 02/18/2007
BP PLC is looking into allegations by a longtime oil industry watchdog, including a claim that a company employee substituted water for more expensive chemical agents used to prevent corrosion in its...

BP cleared of allegations 02/18/2007
Investigation spurred by Hamel's well cellar leak accusations vindicates company
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has issued its report on its investigation into allegations by oil industry watchdog Charles Hamel concerning drilling pad and tundra contamination from...

Loading slowdowns cut production 1.5% 02/11/2007
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. slowed flow rates in mid-month as Valdez Marine Terminal storage hit 6.3 million barrels
Two slowdowns on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in January - requests by Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. to producers to reduce production - resulted in a 1.5 percent Alaska North Slope oil production dro...

Oil Patch Insider 02/11/2007
Pipeliners Enbridge and TransCanada in all-out race to U.S.; Marushack, Konrad out of Alaska gas negotiations
Call it one-upmanship, or tit-for-tat of the battle of the giants. You won't catch spokesmen for either Enbridge or TransCanada using such terms. But whatever it is they're engaged in, it has all the...