Explorers Preview: Jade working Sourdough

Small independent facing down numerous obstacles on eastern North Slope

Eric Lidji

for Petroleum News

The excitement of the word “discovery” belies a basic fact of the Alaska oil industry: finding oil is often only a small first step on the road to developing it. The bigger step is finding an economic way to bring a discovery — even a large one — to market. Obstacles include geology, geography, infr....

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