Alaska’s Oil Revival Sparks a New Energy Rush Into the Arctic

Senator Dan Sullivan speaks with John Lyons, the installation manager at ConocoPhillips' Willow project, and Ryan Lance, the company's CEO, as they survey the site. PHOTO BY JEN DLOUHY /Photographer: Jennifer A. Dlouhy Article content (Bloomberg) — When John Kurz left Alaska’s North Slope in 2009, he was staring at a grim future for what had once been the country’s premiere oil field. Article content Crude production had plummeted to 567,000 barrels per day, barely more than a quarter of the roughly 2 million barrels pumped daily at the field’s peak two decades earlier. The decline stoked conc…