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.

Project Details

Main Data

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

*Final Investment Decision
Unit name Status Operator Owner Discovery year FID* year Production start year
Kuparuk River Operating[1] ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.[2][1] ConocoPhillips (94.5%); Chevron (4.9%); ExxonMobil (0.6%)[3] 1969[4][5] 1981[4]

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil
Fuel Description Reserve Classification Quantity Units Data Year Source
oil remaining reserves 1542 million bbl 2004 [6]

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 [7]
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 Coordinates (WGS 84)
North Slope Unit[8] Alaska, United States[9] 70.3248, -149.9455 (exact)[9]

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Articles and Resources

Additional data

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "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. 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.
  3. (2021) ConocoPhillips Fact Sheet—March 2021 . Report.
  4. 4.0 4.1 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)
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20230420220418/https://alaska.conocophillips.com/who-we-are/our-history/. Archived from the original on 20 April 2023. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. (2004) The Historical Resource and Recovery Growth in Developed Fields, Arctic Slope of Alaska . Report.
  7. 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)
  8. "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)
  9. 9.0 9.1 "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.