North Slope

American  

noun

1. the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.

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Example Sentences

Wildfires on Alaska's North Slope were more intense during the past century than at any point in the last 3,000 years, according to new research published in the journal Biogeosciences.

From Science Daily

Measurements were also taken over open leads and across the snow-covered tundra of Alaska's North Slope, including areas near the Prudhoe Bay oil and gas fields.

From Science Daily

Backed by private-equity firms BP Energy Partners in Dallas and Anchorage-based McKinley Alaska Private Investment, Alyeschem is developing the roughly $150 million project on Alaska’s North Slope, home to Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America, to serve energy companies operating there.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The logistic costs to move things into the North Slope of Alaska are so large that it makes sense to build a smaller plant that wouldn’t be efficient if it was competing in the global market,” Wilcox said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company, which went public in 1991, helped analyze data used to explore Alaska’s North Slope for oil.

From Los Angeles Times