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Word: kuparuk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1981-1981
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...miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was threatened. This year Atlantic Richfield's Arco unit is relying on the convoy to deliver machinery needed to begin drilling on the Kuparuk oilfield, 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay. If it does not arrive safely, the lower 48 states will lose | the 80,000 bbl. of oil per day that the field I should yield from early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Alaska: A Race Through the Arctic Ice | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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