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Article: Alaska's New Beaufort Sea Oil Field Pumps out Its First Barrels.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- November 2, 2001
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By Ben Spiess, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 2--BP's embattled Northstar oil field began production Thursday with about 3,000 barrels of oil coming out the ground.
After the trip through the 800-mile oil pipeline and in tankers to the West Coast, the first oil from Alaska's newest field could be in California gas tanks by Thanksgiving.
Northstar holds an estimated 175 million barrels of oil. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., which operates Northstar, expects production to reach 65,000 barrels a day by midwinter. Northstar is one of a string of smaller North Slope fields adding hundreds of thousands of ...