Producing Light Oil from a Frozen Reservoir: Reservoir and Fluid Characterization of Umiat Field, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska

• Main Author: Hanks, Catherine
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: University Of Alaska Systems 2012
• Subjects: 02 Petroleum; Arctic; Pedersen; Psi; Brooks Range; Ice; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/1080462; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc828594/

Umiat oil field is a light oil in a shallow, frozen reservoir in the Brooks Range foothills of northern Alaska with estimated oil-in-place of over 1 billion barrels. Umiat field was discovered in the 1940’s but was never considered viable because it is shallow, in the permafrost, and far from any tr...