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Vol. 20, No. 17 Week of April 26, 2015
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Feds remove six Umiat legacy wells

Ongoing effort remediating 60-to-70-year-old wells in NPR-A; program activity increases as federal money arrives

Eric Lidji

For Petroleum News

The federal government has removed six legacy wellheads at the Umiat oil field. This winter, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, coordinating with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, plugged Umiat No. 1, No. 3 and No. 11 and removed the wellheads, and....

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