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FROZEN HEAT
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Prudhoe Bay
oil eld
Milne Point
oil eld
Composite of
A-F hydrates
Gas
hydrate
Kuparuk
River
oil eld
Free gas
Eileen
accumulation
Tarn
accumulation
Gas
hydrate
U.S.A.
Canada
Index map
MilnePoint3D
survey
0
30,000 FEET
0
9,000 METERS
Mt Elbert
151 00'
o
150 00'
o
149 00'
o
148 00'
o
70 30'
o
70 15'
o
70 00'
o
Tarn oil
eld
Cirque1&2
NWEIL
EXPLANATION
Wells
Oil elds
Gas hydrate accumulations
Figure 2.6:
Within the greater Prudhoe Bay region, two distinct trends
of gas hydrate accumulations in sand reservoirs (A; after Collett 1993).
Extensive data derived largely from ongoing oil and gas development
on the Alaska North Slope has enabled the delineation of the Northern
Alaska Gas Hydrate Total Petroleum System (B, after Collett et al. 2008).
Sub-permafrost hydrates in the Eileen Trend have been the subject of
two collaborative federal-industry scientific field evaluation programs,
including the BP-DOE-USGS Mt. Elbert Program in the Milne Pt. Unit
(C, Mt. Elbert well site, March 2007; courtesy Mt. Elbert Science Team)
and the ConocoPhillips-JOGMEC-DOE Ignik Sikumi program in the
Prudhoe Bay Unit (D; Courtesy ConocoPhillips).
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