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Archive for January 2025

The First Oil Wells in the Alaska Arctic

By Ross Nixon | January 14, 2025 | 0

By Ross NixonOriginally published in Alaska Business in November, 2018 The path to Alaska’s modern day oil prosperity began with a top priority and long forgotten WWII expedition. This mission was a true epic, worthy of remembrance. ‘The difficult we can do at once, the impossible takes a little longer.’ Alaskan people always knew some…

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