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Vol. 9, No. 44 Week of October 31, 2004
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


BP completes quad-lateral at Orion

Drilling end of viscous equation appears solved; production of heavy oil still an issue because of sand produced with oil and well maintenance issues

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

The viscous oil resource on Alaska’s North Slope — like the natural gas resource there — has been known for decades, but heavy oil has been as stranded as gas, stranded in the ground through lack of the technology and knowledge necessary to produce it. BP Exploration (Alaska) has been working on wa....

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First tri-lateral in 2003

First level-three, quad-lateral well in world

Facility limited

Opportunity huge


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