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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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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

Human activity in the area, driven by continued expansion of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield and the presence of the Dalton Highway, has also interfered with natural drainage.

From Science Daily Oct. 11, 2023

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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