U.S. drilling plan in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
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The Trump administration has signed off on its plan to open up part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development
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RUSSIA
ALASKA
(U.S.)
Prudhoe Bay
Bering Sea
500km 310 miles
Valdez
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
PACIFIC OCEAN
ARCTIC OCEAN
CANADA
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Coastal Plain: 1.5 million acre (0.6m ha) area opened up. At least two 400,000-acre (162,000 ha) lease sales to go ahead

Kuparuk oil field
Trans- Alaska Pipeline
Beaufort Sea
Native lands
Designated wilderness
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Prudhoe Bay oil field
CANADA
100km 60 miles

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Alaska’s ANWR is home to caribou, polar bears and other wildlife
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ANWR
19 million acres (7.7m ha) – about same size as South Carolina

Coastal Plain (“1002 area”)
Could hold 4.3-11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves
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Sources: Associated Press, USGS
Picture: Bureau of Land Management © GRAPHIC NEWS