ANWR Refuge Facts

"Since North Slope oil resources represent a quarter of U.S. oil reserves, the need to access them has accelerated development of environmentally responsible, cost-effective practices and technologies. If Prudhoe Bay were developed with today's technology, its footprint would be 64 percent smaller: the drilling impact area would be 74 percent smaller, roads would cover 58 percent less surface area and oil and gas separating facilities would take 50 percent less space."

(Source: Environmental Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technology, Clinton Administration, Department of Energy, 1999, Technology Facts Pg 36.)