ANS crude production down 6.5% in July

Trans-Alaska pipeline 36-hour maintenance shutdown drops flow July 23-24; Alpine hits almost 130,000 bpd at end of month

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

Average daily Alaska North Slope crude oil production dropped 6.54 percent in July due to the second round of scheduled summer maintenance on the trans-Alaska pipeline, but when work was completed at Alpine and that field came back up at the end of the month it set a new production record of 129,959....