{"id":15933,"date":"2016-10-07T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/conocophillips-signs-deal-for-new-extended-reach-drill-rig\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:03:16","slug":"conocophillips-signs-deal-for-new-extended-reach-drill-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/conocophillips-signs-deal-for-new-extended-reach-drill-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"ConocoPhillips signs deal for new extended reach drill rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Doyon Drilling Inc. has signed a contract with ConocoPhillips Alaska to build an extended reach drilling rig that can be used on Alaska\u2019s North Slope.<\/p>\n<p>The rig will be used first on a field northwest of the Alpine field.<\/p>\n<p>ConocoPhillips said the rig will increase the area that can be drilled from one site from about 55 square miles to as much as 125 square miles.<\/p>\n<p>ConocoPhillips Alaska president Joe Marushack calls construction of the rig a potential breakthrough event that could increase production by reducing the cost of developing economically challenged or previously unreachable oil.<\/p>\n<p>Current rigs drill to 22,000 feet. ConocoPhillips says the new rig will drill to more than 33,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The company said there\u2019s enough work to keep the rig busy for more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Doyon Drilling Inc. has signed a contract with ConocoPhillips Alaska to build an extended reach drilling rig that can be used on Alaska\u2019s North Slope. The rig will be used first on a field northwest of the Alpine field. ConocoPhillips said the rig will increase the area that can be drilled from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}