Prudhoe Bay oil field location 📍 

Location of Prudhoe Bay oil field 

• Country: United States 
• Region: Alaska North Slope
• Coordinates: 70°18′24″N 148°43′57″W (https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Prudhoe_Bay_Oil_Field&params=70_18_24_N_148_43_57_W_type:landmark)
• Operator: BP 
• Partners: BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips 

Prudhoe Bay oil field history 

• Discovery: March 12, 1968, by ARCO and Exxon's Prudhoe Bay State #1 well 
• Start of production: June 20, 1977
• Peak of production: 1.5 million barrels per day (240,000 m3/d)
• Peak year: 1988

Prudhoe Bay Oil production

• Current production of oil: 230,000 barrels per day (~1.1 ×107 t/a)
• Year of current production of oil: 2020
• Estimated oil in place: 25,000 million barrels (~3.4 ×109 t)
• Estimated gas in place: 46,500 ×109 cu ft (1,320 ×109 m3)
• Producing formations: Sadlerochit

Location

The field is located 400 miles (640 km) north of Fairbanks and 650 miles (1,050 km) north of 

Anchorage, 250 miles (400 km) north of the Arctic Circle, and 1,200 miles (1,900 km) south of the

North Pole.[1] 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.

Leasing

The State of Alaska owns the land and leases the area as the Prudhoe Bay Unit.[3] In the

terminology that the State of Alaska uses in its leasing program, the "Prudhoe Bay Oil Field" is

called the Prudhoe Bay Oil Pool.[4] Oil pools within the Prudhoe Bay Unit include the following –

maps showing the location of each pool are in the associated reference 

MAP 

A map of northern Alaska; the dotted line shows the southern boundary of the North Slope. The National Petroleum

Reserve -Alaska is to the West, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the east, and Prudhoe Bay is between them. Red lines

are pipelines.