Murkowski wants ANWR test well

Kay Cashman

Petroleum News Publisher & Managing Editor

Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has asked the oil industry to form a consortium to drill a stratigraphic test well on unleased state lands offshore the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Common in frontier areas, a strat well is designed to provide geologic data about an area, such as....

    [additional news subjects in this story]

Could open up offshore to leasing

How much gas?

Decision needed soon

Forty percent exploration tax credit possible for participants

ANWR Strat Well Meeting