USGS study outlines North Slope bounty

** FILE **This undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a sow polar bear resting with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska. A government report released Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, has concluded that fewer polar bears cubs are surviving off Alaska's northern coast. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, Steve Amstrup)

Alaska bounty: USGS says North Slope could contain onshore resources as great at 2 billion barrels of oil and 80 Tcf of gas

STEVE AMSTRUP

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Luke Johnson

 24 February 2012 20:48 GMT

Alaska’s North Slope could contain as much as 2 billion barrels of oil and 80 trillion cubic feet of gas in technically recoverable onshore shale resources, according to a new survey.

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