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ConocoPhillips draws crude from Alaska reserve set aside in 1923

ConocoPhillips worked with Alaska Natives on project NUIQSUT, Alaska _ Rising from the edgeless, wind-scoured, snow-covered tundra on Alaska’s North Slope lies a million-pound drilling rig pulling the first commercial oil from a reserve set aside nearly a century ago. ConocoPhillips is the first oil company to draw crude from the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, an area […]