... Abstract The Alaska North Slope, within the Arctic Circle, is a challenging environment to operate seismic crews. The company has operated land and marine seismic programs on the North Slope since 1979. We present a review of the summer 2012 Simpson Lagoon seismic survey, outlining the safety...

... Abstract A layer of permafrost, approximately 500m thick, lies immediately beneath the surface of Arctic Alaska’s Central North Slope. This frozen layer of unusually high seismic velocity overlies more than twenty producing fields containing over 60 Billion in place barrels of light and heavy...