Prudhoe Bay Oil Field

Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in both the United States and in North America. It coverers  and originally contained about  of oil.Prudhoe Bay Fact Sheet . BP. August 2006. (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document) It has twice as much recoverable oil as the next largest field in the United States, the East Texas oil field. The field is operated by British Petroleum. Its partners are ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips Alaska.

 Location 

The field is located  north of Fairbanks. It is on the North Slope and lies between the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska to the west and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the east.

 References 

Category:Geography of Alaska