ConocoPhillips Alaska

ConocoPhillips Alaska operates the Kuparuk oil field, the Alpine oil field and has interests in the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. In January 2010 the company announced that it was delaying its latest North Slope project due to a failure to secure a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a bridge needed for the project.

In the Cook Inlet Area, the company operates the Kenai liquefied natural gas export terminal, the Tyonek oil platform in the North Cook Inlet field and the Beluga River natural gas field.

ConocoPhillips Alaska has also teamed with BP on a project to construct the long discussed Alaska gas pipeline to retrieve stranded gas from the North Slope, but a competing project by TransCanada Corporation has some support from both the state and federal government.

Controversy surrounding it

In 2021, ConocoPhillips faced controversy when a gas leak occurred at one of its Alaskan drilling sites. This incident sparked concerns about the safety record of its operations in Texas, where a series of accidents resulted in more than two dozen worker deaths and scores of injuries.

In August 2021, a federal judge reversed the U.S. government's approval of ConocoPhillips' planned $6 billion Willow oil development in Alaska due to problems with its environmental analysis. This ruling was a blow to the massive drilling project that Alaskan officials had hoped would help offset oil production declines in the state.

In January 2023, ConocoPhillips sued the state of Alaska over a road-use dispute with another oil company that plans to develop a giant North Slope prospect. The disagreement between Oil Search and ConocoPhillips over the terms for the use of roads dates back well over a year.

ConocoPhillips has also tried to evade controversy by pulling out of controversial exploration activities in the Peruvian Amazon and environmentally sensitive Chukchi Sea off Alaska, as well as suing another state agency to prevent it from releasing well data related to its Willow project.