Wells
This discovery well is credited as being the first successful well drilled in Prudhoe Bay
What is Prudhoe Bay State Well #1?
This state has the highest daily production of oil in the United States
What is Texas?
These compounds contain only hydrogen and carbon in their structures
What are hydrocarbons?
This feline term is frequently used to describe a well drilled in an area without previous oil or gas production
What is wildcat?
This field is the largest field in North America and covers over 200,000 acres
What is Prudhoe Bay?
This is the name given to a tall pipe that burns off excess gas
What is a flare?
One barrel of crude oil is equal to this many gallons
What is 42?
The heaviest product to come out of a refinery that most of us use daily
What is asphalt?
This potato term is the date that drilling begins on a well
What is the Spud Date?
This field, just to the East of Colville River, is expected to reach commercial production in 2025
What is the Pikka field?
This term is given to the void between the casing and the tubing in a well
What is the inner annulus?
This number is often quoted as Alaska's peak level of production, reached in 1988
What is 2 million barrels per day?
This molecule has 1 carbon atom connected to 4 hydrogen atoms
What is methane?
This is the name given to the tall, main structure of a drilling rig
What is a derrick?
This term is defined as the capability of porous rock to allow fluids to flow through its pores
What is permeability?
The earliest known wells were drilled in 347 CE in this country to produce oil which was used to boil brine and create salt
What is China?
These four states have the highest production in the US behind Texas
What are North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado?
This process separates hydrocarbons by heating until the various components vaporize
What is fractional distillation?
This steel pipe is screwed together and lowered into the the hole to seal off fluids and keep the well hole from caving in
What is casing?
This term describes the deterioration or caving in of a formation, often as a result of melting permafrost
What is subsidence?
This process introduces gas to the oil pool, which reduces the gradient of the oil and increases the flow of oil to the surface
What is artificial lift?
This year the US became a net petroleum exporter for the first time
What is 2019?
This process allows large hydrocarbon molecules to be broken down into smaller hydrocarbon molecules so they are efficient to use in industrial processes
What is cracking?
This is the name given to the primary substance used to control pressure while drilling
What is drilling mud?
This "North" unit is the southern most oil or gas unit in Alaska
What is North Fork Unit?