Second look at Cook Inlet deferred by Prudhoe Bay discovery

Industry now looking for smaller fields to fill out basin picture of super-giant and giant fields found in 1950s and 1960s

Kristen Nelson

PNA Editor-in-Chief

Just when oil and gas companies had geologists who knew enough about Cook Inlet to know what they were looking at — in the late 1960s — industry interest switched to the North Slope and personnel and resources went north, and never came back. That, Forest Oil Corp. geologist Richard Nelson Jr. told....

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