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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Recent drilling results indicate that the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska contains roughly a tenth of the oil that federal scientists had previously estimated, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday.
Instead, the federal agency said, natural gas is the dominant energy resource in the reserve and nearby state waters.
The findings don’t portend well for future oil exploration in vast swaths of the reserve, which had already been dwindling because of oil companies’ own findings.
