• DocumentCode
    1982041
  • Title

    Drilling oil-islands in the Beaufort Sea

  • Author

    Batchelder, George W.

  • Author_Institution
    Nautilus Dredging & Docks, Naples, FL, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    23-26 Sep 1996
  • Firstpage
    760
  • Abstract
    The Beaufort Sea area has vast reserves of oil in the geological formations under its frigid shallow waters. These reserves may need to be tapped some day soon specifically if there are problems of getting oil from the Middle East and other present sources. It is not known for sure how vast the reserve is and how soon it will be needed. For the last 20 years, there has been much effort to find this out. It is the subject of this paper to find out exactly where the oil is, how much there is and how to get it into the Alaskan pipe line practically and economically
  • Keywords
    energy resources; geology; natural resources; oceanic crust; petroleum industry; Alaskan pipe line; Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Sea; Canada; USA; United States; drilling oil island; energy resource; geological formation; natural resource; oil deposit; oil reserve; petroleum industry; Arctic; Costs; Geology; Government; Ice; Marine vehicles; Marketing and sales; Ocean temperature; Oil drilling; Petroleum;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OCEANS '96. MTS/IEEE. Prospects for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings
  • Conference_Location
    Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3519-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OCEANS.1996.568323
  • Filename
    568323