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Prudhoe Bay

American  
[proo-doh] / ˈpru doʊ /

noun

  1. an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.


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The field campaign also revealed major changes in the boundary layer above the Prudhoe Bay oil fields.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

Prudhoe Bay operations have long relied on methanol imported from the Caribbean and Asia by sea to Anchorage and then hauled hundreds of miles north.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Once constructed, the pipeline carried crude overland across 800 miles of tundra and permafrost, from a drilling site at Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2023

That meant leaving from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.

From NewsForKids.net • Mar. 30, 2023

In 1988, Alaska's trans-Alaska pipeline, or TAPS, was pumping a tremendous amount of petroleum from Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope to Valdez on the state's southern coast — approximately 2 million barrels a day.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2023

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