N. Kumar¹, K. J. Bird², J. A. Grow³, P. H. Nelson³, and K. R. Evans⁴

¹Growth Oil and Gas, Richardson, TX
²U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
³U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
⁴StratiGraphix, Aptos, CA

ABSTRACT: A Digital Atlas of Hydrocarbon Accumulations Within and Adjacent to the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA)

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has initiated a project to reassess the hydrocarbon potential of the NPRA. Although exploration for hydrocarbons in the NPRA was initiated in 1944, it has taken fifty years for the first commercial discovery to be made. That discovery, the Alpine field (projected recoverable reserves of 430 million barrels), was made in 1994 along the eastern boundary of the NPRA. This field produces from a formation heretofore considered to be mostly a source rock. The Alpine discovery made such a reassessment necessary. As part of this assessment, we have compiled stratigraphic, structural, petrophysical, and seismic data related to nineteen accumulations within and nearby the NPRA. The goal is to provide basic documentation and a set of analog accumulations for the new assessment.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90906©2001 AAPG Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado