COVID impacts drilling

Notably fewer Slope development wells in 2nd half of 2020; fewer total wells

Alan Bailey

for Petroleum News

With just 38 development wells completed in North Slope oil fields in 2020, compared with 88 wells in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic clearly impacted drilling activity in the Alaska oil industry. The picture becomes still clearer when looking at the timing of the drilling: 28 of the development wells d....

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