company BP says it will begin developing its Liberty oil field, which
will involve drilling the world's longest wells to reach an offshore
reservoir in the Beaufort Sea.
BP Drops Plans for Controversial Liberty Oil Fields in Alaska
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On this page Media release - January 9, 2002 Following years of
campaigning by Greenpeace and other environmental
To tap the Liberty oil field in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s North
Slope, BP must provide information on the possibility of a well
blowout along with third-party verification that equipment
BP discovered the Liberty oil field in 1997, began construction of a
rig there in 2008 and was nearing final preparations this April when
the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the
20 million pounds) in its long-delayed Liberty oil field in Alaska this year ahead of a final investment decision on the $1 billion project due by 2008, a BP spokesman said Tuesday.
Liberty Project Manager Darryl Luoma (Shawn Wilson/KTUU-TV)Officials say there's more than 100 million barrels of oil waiting to be recovered in the Liberty Oil Field in the Beaufort Sea.