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

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

They argued that the then-president had strayed from the environmental promises he made when he ran for election, such as by approving a massive oil drilling project on the North Slope of Alaska.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

The project would build an 800-mile pipeline to transport gas drilled from Alaska’s North Slope to southern Alaska and then to Asia, home to three of the world’s largest importers of liquefied natural gas, or LNG: China, Japan and South Korea.

From Los Angeles Times