Nominated to spend Christmas at Prudhoe Bay

Personal reflections from Alaska geologist Gil Mull, who sat on the Prudhoe discovery well for Humble, ExxonMobil predecessor

Gil Mull

for Petroleum News - Reprint from April 3, 2011 PN

Workers flared the first gas flow from the Ivishak (Sadlerochit) formation during drill stem test No. 2 of the Prudhoe Bay State No. 1 well on Dec. 27, 1967. No oil flowed to the surface during the test, but natural gas flowed....

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Things were becoming interesting

Communication limited to radio

A thousand mile daily commute

Looks like gas discovery