Is it true that the North Slope of Alaska contains as much crude oil as there is in all of Saudi Arabia?

Question

Is it true that the North Slope of Alaska contains as much crude oil as there is in all of Saudi Arabia?

Answer 1

If Rich would care to read his article he posted, the 1 trillion barrels is based on Ghold's theory that essential indicates that there are vast stores of oil below the current reserves.  These are not included in the 10 billion barrel estimate for Alaska.  If you included all of Alaska and the potential deeper reserves (to date unproven in Saudi or Alaskan fields), it might be equivilent to Saudi fields but there is too many unknowns.

Answer 2

NO.  The north slope contains about 20 to 40 billion barrels if you include some of the estimates for the Naval Petroleum Reserve and ANWAR.

Saudi Arabia has at least 176 billion barrels proven (waiting to be pumped) and they haven't even looked for the hard-to-find oil yet.

Answer 3

Doubt it.  I'm not even counting on it, and that would be dried up quickly if we started drilling there.  Hopefully we'll all have electric cars in about five years from now so we won't have to think about it.

Answer 4

I don't think so. 10 billion barrels vs 1.2 trillion barrels estimated.

Answer 5

NO NO NO