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Article: Federal geologists dig up more data on inhospitable Beaufort Sea.
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- AK Journal of Commerce
- Article date:
- January 15, 2006
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Byline: Tim Bradner
Jan. 15--Whether there is any oil or natural gas out in the Beaufort Sea, north of the existing big North Slope oil and gas fields, remains a mystery.
There's almost certainly some out there, and a new U.S. Minerals Management Service resource assessment for the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf due out Jan. 26 will provide an update on what government geologists now think might be in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
The 2005 assessment, unlike previous estimates, will focus more closely on the economic potential of Arctic offshore gas, according to Kirk Sherwood, an MMS regional geologist. The last assessment was in 1995, with ...