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Vol. 9, No. 16 Week of April 18, 2004
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


BP has conceptual breakthrough on North Slope viscous crude oil

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News editor-in-chief

When a single horizontal well was drilled to viscous oil on Alaska’s North Slope in 1999, producers had taken what proved to be a significant step toward economic development of the 15 billion barrel resource. In the last year, new drilling and completion technology tripled productivity from the sh....

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