In the early weeks of 1968, after a decade-long search for oil in Alaska's frozen wilderness, gas burst up out of an exploratory well on the North Slope with such force the crew thought it was about to blow. Geologists soon calculated that as much as ten billion barrels of oil lay below the frozen tundra of Prudhoe Bay - the largest oil find in North America.
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Publisher: American Experience 60 min minutes Size: 7.5 x 5.5 Product type: DVD ISBN 0793692288
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