Could there be oil or natural gas under Alaska’s largest city?

Anchorage: Don’t count on it

Alan Bailey

People living in Anchorage, Alaska, may tend to think of oil and gas fields as distant from the urban environment of the city. Yet a glance at a geological map of Southcentral Alaska reveals that the city lies on the edge of the prolific Cook Inlet basin. With oil and gas fields not too far to the s....

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Homestead land

Romig Park well

Relatively thin Tertiary