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BP seeks to emerge from rough times in Alaska |
| Home | (The Associated Press) - PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska: Oil production on Alaska's North Slope is declining steadily, but BP, the largest operator on site, is bullish about the future. It is trying to start by restoring faith in its safety, one year after a shutdown caused by poor maintenance of transit pipelines. "How we get people's confidence back is by telling them not what we are going to do, but what we have done and what we are doing," said Doug Suttles, president of BP Exploration Alaska. The North Slope covers more than 90,000 square miles, or 233,000 square kilometers. More than 25 producing fields and about 2,000 miles, or 3,200 kilometers, of pipeline run through its environmentally sensitive tundra, where caribou and musk oxen roam in warmer months. |