Lasley, John, 2005, THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR ALASKA'S UNDEVELOPED BASINS: Oil & Gas Investor, p. 50-53.
Summary
State and industry sources in Alaska say if oil prices stay above $30 and natural gas prices above $5, explorers will make their way to the state's undeveloped prospective basins and ocean shelves. For example, state and federal geologists say there are several sedimentary basins within Interior Alaska that share broadly similar geological characteristics and probably contain natural gas, either as conventional gas or as coalbed methane. A case in point is Interior Alaska's Nenana Basin, which has geology and market proximity going for it. Another of Alaska's under-explored and undeveloped area is the relatively small Copper River Basin north of Valdez in a lowland area north of the Gulf of Alaska. The geology of the Copper River Basin [...]
Summary
State and industry sources in Alaska say if oil prices stay above $30 and natural gas prices above $5, explorers will make their way to the state's undeveloped prospective basins and ocean shelves. For example, state and federal geologists say there are several sedimentary basins within Interior Alaska that share broadly similar geological characteristics and probably contain natural gas, either as conventional gas or as coalbed methane. A case in point is Interior Alaska's Nenana Basin, which has geology and market proximity going for it. Another of Alaska's under-explored and undeveloped area is the relatively small Copper River Basin north of Valdez in a lowland area north of the Gulf of Alaska. The geology of the Copper River Basin is similar in many ways to the Cook Inlet Basin, especially in the Mesozoic section, because during Mesozoic times the Copper River and Cook Inlet areas formed part of a continuous marine basin.