Technology, knowledge team up at Lisburne

Alignment, subsurface knowledge, coiled tubing drilling result in two successful wells for BP at North Slope carbonate field

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

BP Exploration (Alaska) President Steve Marshall told the Resource Development Council in November that the company is revisiting some of the North Slope’s more challenging oil accumulations in an effort to produce known resources. One of those, he said, is Lisburne, where two recent wells provide....

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