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The project at Sockeye is near an existing pipeline built from Prudhoe Bay to Point Thomson.
Armstrong bullish on discovery at Sockeye
2,700 barrels per day in a production test earlier this year. Reservoirs tested show excellent porosity, he said during a recent Alaska energy conference held in June in Anchorage. Armstrong’s Denver-based Armstrong Oil and Gas is partnering with Apache Corp. in the project, which includes plans for ad - ditional drilling of nearby prospects on a large block of state of Alaska leases con - trolled by the two companies. Significantly, Sockeye is only 10 miles from an existing pipeline built east from Prudhoe Bay to the Point Thomson gas
After initial testing, site could flow ‘500M to 800M barrels’ Alaska oil explorer Bill Armstrong, who has led the development of several signif - icant new North Slope discoveries, believes his latest find at the new Sockeye prospect could total 500 million to 800 million bar - rels of recoverable oil. Sockeye was drilled last year and flowed
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