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Production starts at Arctic Alaska’s westernmost oil field

Greater Mooses Tooth 1 is the first field located on federal lands in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska or NPR-A.

By Yereth Rosen October 12, 2018
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ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. has started production at the farthest west oil field on Alaska’s North Slope, a site that is part of a westward expansion of Arctic Alaska oil development.
The Greater Mooses Tooth 1 drill site, or GMT1, came on line on Oct. 5, slightly earlier than the anticipated late-2018 startup.

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