ANCHORAGE, Alaska — State transportation officials have shut down the 400-mile road to Alaska’s oil fields after “a significant flooding event,” washouts and erosion across a broad stretch ...

In the last 14 months, four men have died while working in the oil fields on the North Slope. Before that, the area hadn’t seen a death in about five years, according to Anchorage Daily News ...

Road traffic has long posed a challenge to caribou on the North Slope. For decades, there has been a standard for oil field traffic heavy enough to disturb the animals: 15 vehicles per hour.

The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is now moving less than a fourth of the oil it did in the 1980s when North Slope oil fields were at their peak. We know oil fields eventually decline, and some of the ...

Two wells drilled this winter in Alaska’s North Slope by Spanish oil company Repsol SA and Denver-based partner Armstrong Oil & Gas indicate that discoveries could hold as much as 1.2 billion ...

Jan. 12—In a rare feat, oil production on Alaska's North Slope increased slightly in 2022. The giant oil patch has seen dwindling production for decades, with its primary field at Prudhoe Bay aging.

Hilcorp’s Alaska headquarters in Midtown Anchorage are seen on Feb. 7. The company, now a dominant operator in Alaska, announced it has struck a deal to expand its North Slope holdings by buying ...

As ConocoPhillips builds its huge Willow oil drilling project on the western side of Alaska’s North Slope, federal regulators and residents of the nearest Iñupiat village have struck a deal for ...