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Offshore in Cook Inlet, a ‘silent economy’ hunts for gas to keep Alaska running

Posted 6/14/25

SPARTAN 151 RIG, COOK INLET — Deep below the ocean floor outside Anchorage this spring, a huge drill bit chewed through multi-million-year-old sandstone, sending crushed bits of rock back to the surface through a mile-long hole. The hunt for natural gas, to keep Alaska warm, had resumed. Here, on crowded platforms perched above the icy […]

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