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2. Cook Inlet Basin - Wikipedia

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   The Cook Inlet Basin is a northeast-trending collisional forearc basin that stretches from the Gulf of Alaska into South central Alaska, just east of the Matanuska Valley. It is located in the arc-trench gap between the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith and contains roughly 80,000 cubic miles of sedimentary rocks. [1]

3. Cook Inlet - Wikipedia

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   Oil Rig and Packraft on Cook Inlet. The Cook Inlet Basin contains large oil and gas deposits including several offshore fields. [17] As of 2005 there were 16 platforms in Cook Inlet, the oldest of which is the XTO A platform first installed by Shell in 1964, and newest of which is the Osprey platform installed by Forest Oil in 2000. Most of the ...

4. US judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending ... - AOL

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   Cook Inlet is Alaska's oldest producing oil and gas basin, where production peaked in the 1970s, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Alaska's most populous region relies on natural ...

5. Turnagain Arm - Wikipedia

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   Turnagain Arm (Dena'ina: Tutl'uh) is a waterway into the northwestern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is one of two narrow branches at the north end of Cook Inlet, the other being Knik Arm. Turnagain is subject to climate extremes and large tide ranges. [1]

6. Federal government plans Alaska Cook Inlet oil and gas lease ...

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   Sep. 23—Steelhead and Grayling platforms in the Cook Inlet The federal government on Wednesday announced its schedule to reinstate a controversial oil and gas lease sale this year in federal ...

7. Study finds 'rare but real risk' of tsunami threat to parts ...

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   Previously, researchers said the shallow waters of Upper Cook Inlet would work to diminish the power of a tsunami wave. The findings from the study by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ...