On Alaska's North Slope, ConocoPhillips operates the Kuparuk River Unit (Kuparuk), North America’s second largest oil field, 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay. Discovered in 1969, production at Kuparuk began in 1981, increasing to a record rate of 322,000 barrels per day in 1992.

The Kuparuk River Oil Field, or Kuparuk, located in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, is the second largest oil field in North America by area. It started production in 1982, peaking in 1992.

The Kuparuk River [pronunciation?] (Iñupiaq: Kuukpaaġruk) is a river in Alaska's North Slope that enters a bay on the Beaufort Sea between Beechey Point and Prudhoe Bay. [5] The north-flowing river is about 200 miles (320 km) long, [3] and its delta is about 3 miles (5 km) wide. [3]

ConocoPhillips Alaska is the state’s largest oil producer with a history stretching back more than 50 years. CPAI holds major ownership interests in two of North America’s largest legacy conventional oil fields, both located on Alaska’s North Slope: Kuparuk, which the company operates, and Prudhoe Bay.

Kuparuk Satellites Operator: ConocoPhillips (89.2%– 94.7%) Co-venturers: Chevron (4.9%), ExxonMobil (0.2%– 5.8%) The Kuparuk satellites consist of the Meltwater, Tabasco, Tarn and West Sak fields. In 2022, they averaged 19 MBOED of net crude oil production. All satellite field production goes through the Kuparuk production facilities ...

CPAI holds major ownership interests in two of North America’s largest legacy conventional oil fields, both located on Alaska’s North Slope: Kuparuk, which the company operates, and Prudhoe Bay. Additionally, CPAI operates several fields on the Western North Slope.

2025年1月28日 · The Kuparuk River oil field is west of the supergiant Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s North Slope and was discovered in 1969. It has approximately 5.9 billion bbl of stock tank original oil in place (STOOIP) and covers more than 200 sq. miles (see Fig. 1). The sandstone reservoir consists of two zones [A (62% of STOOIP) and C (38% of STOOIP ...

Kuparuk: Rigs down right now, but Conoco’s goal 25 more years. Kristen Nelson. ConocoPhillips Alaska, operator of the North Slope’s second largest field, Kuparuk, prefaces its newly filed Kuparuk unit plan of development with a warning that the plan was “envisioned prior to COVID-19 and the market downturn.”

2014年11月9日 · Kuparuk oilfield, the second biggest oilfield in North America, covers an area of 170,000 acres in the North Slope region of Alaska. ConocoPhillips Alaska (COPA), the operator, holds a working interest of 55.3% in the field. The co-owners include BP Exploration (39.2%), ChevronTexaco (4.9%), and ExxonMobil (0.6%).

Kuparuk River Unit (Kuparuk River) is a producing conventional oil field located onshore the US and is operated by ConocoPhillips Alaska.