Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

North Slope Borough

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Prudhoe Bay is a census -designated place (CDP ) in North Slope Borough in the state of Alaska in the United States. It is the starting point of the across Alaska leading up to the ice-free port Valdez Trans Alaska pipeline.

In the Prudhoe Bay is located to the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the largest oil deposits in the United States with an initial volume of 25 billion barrels, which was discovered in 1968. The field reached in 1988 with a production of about 2 million barrels per day, his production peak ( peak oil ). Since then, the promotion is in decline. 2006, the remaining reserves were estimated to be at least 2 billion barrels, 11 billion barrels have been 1977-2005 already promoted.

After Prudhoe Bay from Fairbanks leads the rising 666 kilometers long and up to 2,499 meters above sea level, Dalton Highway, which was long closed to private traffic.

Demography

At the time of the census in 2000 ( U.S. Census 2000) there was only one household in the town, which consisted of a couple with two sons and a daughter. In addition to this there is only one house residential containers for employees of the oil-producing company, which originates mainly from other U.S. states or directly from Alaska.

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