The Tarn oil field is an oil field in

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. It is adjacent to the Kuparuk Oil Field, Alaska's second largest oil field. B.P. America and ARCO Alaska, Inc., first announced the Tarn discovery on 10 March after testing of the Tarn #2 well yielded a steady, stimulated flow rate in excess of 2,000 barrels per day of 38-degree API gravity oil from a sandstone reservoir discovered at a depth of 5,200 feet.

History

In March 1997 oil was found in the Tarn Prospect and plans for Tarn Oil Field Development were announced.

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