Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field (Alaska, United States)

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Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field is an operating oil and gas field in Alaska, United States.

Along with Nuna Oil Asset (Alaska, United States), Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field is a part of the Kuparuk Satellites Oil and Gas Complex (Alaska, United States).

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field

¹Final Investment Decision
Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID¹ year	Production start year	Production type
Kuparuk River	Operating^[1]	ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.^[2]^[1]	ConocoPhillips (98.4%); ExxonMobil (0.6%)^[3]^[4]	1969^[5]^[6]	–	1981^[5]	Conventional^[1]

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil
Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	remaining reserves	1542	million bbl	2004	^[7]

Table 3: Production from Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field

million m³/y = million cubic meters per year
million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year
million bbl = million barrels of oil
Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
cumulative production	oil	2400	million bbl	2011	^[8]
production	gas	1409.6	million m³/y	2020	^[2]
production	oil	33.36	million bbl/y	2020	^[2]
production	oil	32.84	million bbl/y	2022	^[1]
production	gas	1235.8	million m³/y	2022	^[1]

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field


Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
North Slope Unit^[9]	Alaska, United States^[10]	Onshore^[11]	70.3248, -149.9455 (exact)^[10]

The map below shows the exact location of the field(s) within the Kuparuk River complex:

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Articles and Resources

Additional Data

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "AOGCC DATA MINER". Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development: ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2023. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: save command (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Aogcc Data Miner: Production". Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. 2020. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
↑ (2021) ConocoPhillips Fact Sheet—March 2021 . Report.
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↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20230522200224/https://alaska.conocophillips.com/who-we-are/alaska-operations/kuparuk/. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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↑ (2004) The Historical Resource and Recovery Growth in Developed Fields, Arctic Slope of Alaska . Report.
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210412230420/https://www.conocophillipsalaska.com/ea/kuparuktimeline/. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "Working Interest Ownership of North Slope Units" (PDF). Department of Natural Resource Division of Oil & Gas. 44896. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 7, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 "Spational Data - Unit Tracts". Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas. Archived from the original on July 16, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
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[AOGCC22-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "AOGCC DATA MINER". Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development: ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2023. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: save command (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[http://aogweb.state.ak.us/DataMiner4/Forms/Production.aspx-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Aogcc Data Miner: Production". Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. 2020. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2021.

[https://static.conocophillips.com/files/resources/21-0034-2021-conocophillips-fact-sheets-alaska.pdf-3] (2021) ConocoPhillips Fact Sheet—March 2021 . Report.

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[autoref_1-5] 5.0 ^5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20230522200224/https://alaska.conocophillips.com/who-we-are/alaska-operations/kuparuk/. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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[https://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Documents/ResourceEvaluation/Resource_and_Recovery_Engineering_Data.pdf-7] (2004) The Historical Resource and Recovery Growth in Developed Fields, Arctic Slope of Alaska . Report.

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[NorthSlopeWIODec2022Label-9] "Working Interest Ownership of North Slope Units" (PDF). Department of Natural Resource Division of Oil & Gas. 44896. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 7, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/8bc49d41a69341f99be74f95e9a58293_0.zip-10] 10.0 ^10.1 "Spational Data - Unit Tracts". Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas. Archived from the original on July 16, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2021.

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