December production down from November 01/10/2010
Alaska North Slope production drops 1.6%, month to month; Endicott, Milne, Alpine, Prudhoe Bay all have reduced volumes
Alaska North Slope crude oil production dropped 1.56 percent in December, averaging 688,765 barrels per day compared to the November average of 699,675 bpd. ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at...

ANS November production up from October 12/06/2009
Alaska North Slope crude oil production for November averaged 699,675 barrels per day, up 2 percent from an October average of 686,126 bpd. ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at some 2 million bp...

ANS production back up from September 11/15/2009
Alaska North Slope production averaged 686,126 barrels per day in October, an increase of 1.4 percent from a September average of 676,664 bpd, according to data from the Alaska Department of Revenue's...

Orion pool rules expansion in works 10/25/2009
Prudhoe Bay field operator BP Exploration (Alaska) has applied to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for an amendment of pool rules for Orion, a Schrader Bluff oil reservoir and one of the...

September North Slope production up 18% 10/11/2009
BP completes planned turnarounds for year with work at Northstar, where production returned to average rates in early October
September Alaska North Slope production averaged 676,664 barrels per day, up 18 percent from an August average of 572,967 bpd. The BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Northstar field averaged 9,474 bpd...

August production holds level with July 09/06/2009
Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 572,967 barrels per day in August, an increase of 4,179 bpd or 0.73 percent from the July average of 568,788 bpd. The largest increase, more than 332...

Eni aims for 2010 oil 08/16/2009
Italian firm submits revised plan for Nikaitchuq field, cites work already done
Back in February, managers for Eni Petroleum were explaining to Alaska industry regulators how plunging oil prices and other complications had shifted their fast-track Nikaitchuq oil field development...

BP in Alaska: Alaska heavy oil test yields positive results 07/12/2009
A heavy oil production test program on the North Slope in August-September 2008 was an important step toward extracting vast deposits of heavy oil that lie above established fields such as Milne Point...

BP in Alaska: 50 more years in Alaska... 07/12/2009
BP Alaska is planning a 50-year future and is continuing on an ambitious course of renewal that could rival everything it has achieved to date. "Looking forward, our priorities are safe, reliable and...

Pipeline work brings ANS production down 07/05/2009
Steep dip in numbers June 20-21 as trans-Alaska oil pipeline down; Prudhoe Gathering Center 2 also down for planned maintenance
Alaska North Slope production was down 17.2 percent from May to June as the trans-Alaska oil pipeline took its first planned summer timeout for maintenance work June 20-21, with ANS production droppin...

State approves Northeast West Sak PA 06/07/2009
The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas has approved a new participating area at Kuparuk, the Northeast West Sak PA. In a May 29 decision the division said the new participating area includes portions of...

Eni asks for more time at Nikaitchuq 03/29/2009
Company wants term of unit agreement pushed out nearly two additional years, also asks for extension on ADL 391283 timeline
Eni US Operating Co. Inc. wants extra time to develop the Nikaitchuq unit. The subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni S.p.A. recently asked the state to extend the term of the offshore unit to April 1, 2...

ANS February production up 4.9% 03/08/2009
Alaska North Slope production averaged 738,318 barrels per day in February, up 4.91 percent from a January average of 703,745 bpd. There were weather-related delays in Valdez tanker loadings in the ea...

One expansion approved, one deferred 03/08/2009
Prudhoe Bay unit expanded by 1,000 acres; expansion of Orion participating area deferred pending well data to prove up resource
As drilling moves to the northwest in the Orion accumulation in the northwest corner of the Prudhoe Bay unit on Alaska's North Slope, BP Exploration (Alaska) has applied to expand the unit, and the Or...

Slowing Nikaitchuq 03/08/2009
Low oil prices and weak economy believed to be behind Eni's decision
Eni Petroleum is "slowing down" the pace of development at the Nikaitchuq unit in the nearshore waters off the North Slope, according to a top state oil and gas official. Division of Oil and Gas Dire...

January production down due to weather 02/08/2009
Valdez Marine Terminal weather delayed loading Jan. 1-7; 3.7 percent production drop, January-over-December, to 703,318 bpd
Driven by weather delays at the Valdez Marine Terminal early in the month, January Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 703,318 barrels per day for the month, down 3.7 percent from a Decem...

ANS production down on Valdez weather 01/11/2009
North Slope production drops 3.7% from November due to late-December proration, six-hour closedown of trans-Alaska oil pipeline
Alaska North Slope crude oil production for December averaged 729,948 barrels per day, down 3.7 percent from a November average of 758,099 bpd, the drop driven by weather delays in loading crude oil i...

ANS November production up 2 percent 12/07/2008
Alaska North Slope production averaged 758,099 barrels per day in November, up 2 percent from an October average of 743,112 bpd, with most fields showing a month-to-month increase. The BP Exploration...

The Explorers 2008: BP: Exploration through technology 11/23/2008
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. no longer drills wildcat wells on Alaska's North Slope, but that doesn't mean it isn't risking dollars to expand production. When BP said in July 2008 that it was going a...

The Explorers 2008: Eni becomes an oil producer in 2008 11/23/2008
Italian major holds interest in Oooguruk, working to bring Nikaitchuq online, exploration on deck
Eni Petroleum shifted its focus in Alaska from exploration to development this past year. The American subsidiary of the Italian multinational sanctioned development of the Nikaitchuq unit in the Beau...

40 Years at Prudhoe Bay: Mid-life transition for a giant 11/16/2008
40 years after discovery the Prudhoe Bay field continues to produce oil while looking forward to future natural gas sales
At a time when daily oil production from the giant Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope has declined from a peak of about 1.6 million barrels in 1987 to about 400,000 barrels, it is tempting to think o...

ANS production up 5 percent in October 11/09/2008
Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 743,112 barrels per day in October, up 5.4 percent from a September average of 705,360 bpd. The largest month-to-month change was at the BP Exploratio...

Looking for the geologic links on North Slope 11/02/2008
DGGS-led team is finding evidence for how the geology and petroleum systems in different parts of the North Slope hook together
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone that Alaska's North Slope holds some world class petroleum systems in its subsurface geology. But, as oil and gas exploration moves away from the Prud...

Hydrate estimate set at 85 tcf 10/26/2008
USGS publishes assessment of technically recoverable North Slope gas hydrates
The potential volumes of natural gas tied up in gas hydrates in northern Alaska dwarf the volumes being used to drive the economics of a North Slope gas line - a 1995 USGS assessment of U.S. gas hydra...

September ANS production bounces back 10/12/2008
Month-to-month increase of 27.8 percent as Alpine comes back up after shutdown, new transit line in operation from Prudhoe FS-2
Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 705,360 barrels per day in September, up a dramatic 27.8 percent from an August average of 552,114 bpd. The biggest month-over-month change, an increa...