50 years has passed since Prudhoe discovery

Knowledge, educated guesswork, science, and a willingness to spend money by relatively small companies led to a giant oil find

Compiled by Kay Cashman

Petroleum News

Despite Richfield’s growing enthusiasm for North Slope exploration, limited budgets probably would have quashed the company’s oil hunting efforts in the Arctic were it not for a 50-50 strategic partnership with Humble Oil & Refining Co, a subsidiary of Exxon and eventually folded into Exxon. Humble....

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Humble selects discovery well location

Nominated to spend Christmas at Prudhoe Bay

Looked like gas discovery

Major deployment got underway