30 STRONG: Meeting Northstar's challenges 10/14/2007
Technology helps island development succeed in sensitive environment with leak detection, smart wells
In developing the 200 million-barrel Northstar field some six miles offshore in the icy Beaufort Sea, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. placed a tall order with its engineering teams: Find a way to overcom...

Technology meets Northstar challenges 07/22/2007
Island development succeeds in sensitive offshore environment thanks to leak detection system, smart wells and futuristic 'walker'
In developing the 200 million-barrel Northstar field some six miles offshore in the icy Beaufort Sea, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. placed a tall order with its engineering teams: find a way to overcom...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Images for industry 10/17/2004
Judy Patrick's experience as a photographer helps her adapt to the changing oil and gas scene
Photographer Judy Patrick's evocative images continue to depict the beautiful but challenging world of Alaska oil exploration and production. Through her photographs of responsible, environmentally se...

ANS production levels recover in December 01/11/2004
After late November, early December downtime at Northstar and Alpine fields, North Slope output returns to normal
Following unscheduled downtime at both the Alpine and Northstar fields on Alaska's North Slope, production had returned to normal rates at both fields by Dec. 9, resulting in a daily average productio...

Both Northstar and Alpine back on line 12/14/2003
Two North Slope oil fields which had production difficulties at the end of November and the beginning of December are back at normal production rates. The BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Northstar f...

Alpine output drops to half, Northstar remains offline 12/07/2003
The number of North Slope fields with production problems has gone from one to two. Northstar lost a transformer in late November (see production update this issue); on Dec. 1 Alpine developed a probl...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Crowley Alaska marks 50 years of service to the state 12/15/2002
Company has been in Alaska since 1953, in Arctic for almost that long, and has provided service to oil companies in Cook Inlet, on North Slope and at Valdez
Two-thousand-and-three will mark Crowley's 50th anniversary of service to the people and businesses of Alaska. During that time Crowley has consistently provided unique solutions to Alaska's logistics...

Positioning module flare boom on Northstar Island a challenge 07/30/2001
When BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s Northstar field production facilities arrive at Northstar Island in mid-August, contractors will install the compressor module. The positioning of this massive modu...

Northstar modules sail, destination North Slope 07/30/2001
On July 25, a Crowley Marine barge carrying two 10 story modules left Anchorage bound for BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s Northstar oil project in the Beaufort Sea. Towed by Crowley tug Navigator, bar...

BP applies with state, feds to expand Northstar unit 04/28/2001
Federal lease off northwest corner would be added; participating areas established before production start-up, which is scheduled for late this fall
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., operator of the Northstar unit, and the state and federal issuers of the field's leases have reached tentative agreement on who gets what from the field when it begins pr...

Photographer captures essence of oil industry 01/28/2001
Judy Patrick Photography expands into full service advertising and public relations agency
Judy Patrick is not just another shutterbug, snapping photos for anyone who will pay her. As a successful photographer, she's also wife and mother, a 20-year resident of Alaska and deputy mayor of Was...

BP moves Northstar toward fourth quarter 2001 startup 11/28/2000
Ice road work, drilling, to begin in December; some final island work scheduled for March
Production will begin next November from BP's offshore Northstar island in the Beaufort Sea. Engineering is complete, BP's Northstar manager Peter Flones told the Alaska Support Industry Alliance Nov....

Shared Services Drilling gets new name, larger staff, more responsibilities 11/28/2000
A shortage of rigs is not a problem on the North Slope; a shortage of qualified people is, says Fritz Gunkel, BP's
The name "Shared Services Drilling" disappeared when BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. became sole operator of the Prudhoe Bay field this past summer, but the actual Shared Services entity - now a BP divis...

BP begins shipping natural gas to Northstar 10/28/2000
Development drilling will start later this year; reservoir penetrations still limited to November through May
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. began to move natural gas to Northstar Island in October after approval by the Joint Pipeline Office of the company's surveillance and monitoring plan. The JPO program est...

Increased oil company spending bodes well for Alaska businesses 10/28/2000
Phillips Alaska Inc. is anticipating higher oil production from the North Slope - as much as 15 percent higher over the next five years. "This winter we will execute one of our most aggressive explora...

Northstar-bound barge heads for island - again 08/28/2000
The Northstar island-bound barge delayed by a Greenpeace occupation Aug. 7 left Barrow about 7 p.m. Aug. 8 and was scheduled to reach Prudhoe the evening of Aug. 9. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. spoke...

Work proceeds at Northstar island and on modules 06/28/2000
BP Exploration (Alaska) has island ready for breakup, continuing construction at Northstar Terminal
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has its Northstar construction project ready for breakup, with the island completely encased in sheet piling. Islands in the Arctic must withstand both ice forces in the w...

BP Exploration (Alaska) gets what it needed done this winter 05/28/2000
In spite of late start due to weather, Greg Mattson tells Alliance, Northstar work ended up where it needed to be this winter, with pipelines, island in place
By the end of April, the pipelines to Northstar were in place, hydrotested, pigged and filled with nitrogen, and sheet pile was being installed around Northstar island. In spite of a two to three wee...

Northstar update: Pipeline to project being hyrotested; sheet piling being driven 04/28/2000
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has completed the pipelines to Northstar island and is in the process of hydrotesting, company spokesman Ronnie Chappell told PNA March 26. All of the gravel has been mov...

BP spending three-quarters of a million dollars a day at Northstar 03/28/2000
Offshore pipeline trenching under way; gravel at island construction above level of ice; onshore portion of pipeline in place
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. and its contractors are well into this winter's work at Northstar, a project estimated to be costing about three-quarters of a million dollars a day. By the end of the sec...

BP Amoco selects Era for Northstar island transportation 01/28/2000
Employment of IFR Bell 212 helicopters after ice roads unusable will allow construction to continue year-round at the offshore project
BP Amoco has selected Era Aviation Inc. to provide air transportation during the construction of Northstar Island, the Anchorage-based firm said at the end of December. Era will send two IFR Bell 212...