Tapping North Slope heavy oilPhillips Alaska uses new drilling technology to boost heavy oil production Patricia Jones PNA Contributing Writer
North Slope oil fields contain a number of very large and virtually untapped resources — several billion barrels of heavy or viscous oil contained in shallow deposits, either within or just below permafrost layers.
How to economically produce oil from these technologically challenging reservoirs ha....
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