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Article: Alaska Sees Slumping Oil Output as Challenge for the Future.
- Article from:
- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- July 23, 2003
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As fields on Alaska's North Slope (ANS) experience their annual lull in output, slumping annual production in some locations raises concerns about longer-term challenges posed by declining flows for Trans-Alaskan Pipeline (TAPS) operator Alyeska Pipeline Services.
Although ANS crude production eked out a 2,000 barrels per day gain last year to 994,000 b/d on higher output from the new Northstar field, it is expected to drop by 4,000 b/d this year and 40,000 b/d in 2004.
But Alaska state planners see an uptick in the second half of the decade with the start-up of the Point Thomson unit east of Prudhoe Bay and the National Petroleum Reserve- Alaska to the ...