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Article: Oil's new infrastructure.(Alaska's North Slope)
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Getting North Slope oil out of the ground and to Valdez now costs less and is more environmentally friendly.
Amaze of pipe extends from the Nabors 28 oil site to the great expanse of the Arctic Ocean, which stretches across the far northern horizon. Most of the year, wind-roughed waves of crusted snow-covered tundra stretch as far as one can see to the south.
Only a thin line of pipe, which rests on steel supports about five feet above ground, snakes out from the drill rig and breaks up the seemingly untouched canvas in the eastern comer of Alaska's oil field developments.
That pipeline transports new oil from this remote field called Badami, ...