Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Discovery Well Site
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in North America, covering 213,543 acres and originally contained approximately 25 billion barrels of oil.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Oil well
- Description: oil field in Alaska, USA
- Also known as: “ARCO-Humble Prudhoe Bay State #1”, “Discovery Well Prudhoe Bay State Number 1”, and “Prudhoe Bay Oil Field”
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Discovery Well Site
- Categories: oil field and industry
- Location: North Slope, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
70.32408° or 70° 19′ 27″ north
Longitude
-148.54116° or 148° 32′ 28″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Open location code
C32H8FF5+JG
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Discovery Well Site” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حقل نفط خليج برودو”
- Chinese: “普拉德霍灣油田”
- Dutch: “Prudhoe Bay Oil Field”
- Dutch: “Prudhoe Bay”
- Finnish: “Prudhoe Bayn öljykenttä”
- French: “champ pétrolifère de Prudhoe Bay”
- French: “Champ pétrolifère de Prudhoe Bay”
- German: “Prudhoe-Bay-Ölfeld”
- Hebrew: “שדה פרודהו ביי”
- Italian: “Prudhoe Bay Oil Field”
- Japanese: “プルドーベイ油田”
- Korean: “프루드호 베이 유전”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prudhoe Bayfeltet”
- Norwegian: “Prudhoe Bay-feltet”
- Persian: “میدان نفتی پرداهو”
- Russian: “Прадхо-Бей”
- Russian: “Прудо-Бей”
- Spanish: “Bahía Prudhoe”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Prudhoe Bay and Deadhorse.
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Places to explore: Putuligayuk River and Pad C.
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