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ConocoPhillips believes its recent winter exploration campaigns on the North Slope have added up to 1.4 billion barrels of oil and gas resources to its portfolio, company officials said in a July 16 presentation to investors.
The estimate is largely derived from the results of the six exploration and appraisal wells the company drilled into its western Slope prospects last winter, which built on the work of two wells drilled in the federal National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in early 2016.
The 2016 drilling led to ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil discovery — a shallow, Nanushuk formation-focused prospect — with an early oil estimate of up to 300 million recoverable barrels announced in January 2017.