I don't have any info on the salinity at this time. I don't believe under Alaska regs that they would be allowed to spray it on the roads. Surprisingly enough, they use very little salt on the roads around here. A DOT guy said when they sand roads they put just enough salt in the sand to keep it from clumping up in the truck.Tanada wrote:Any idea how saline that high pressure water layer is? Also any idea if Alaska allows produced saline water to be used for road spray like Ohio does? .....
I don't know if it was clear from the article, but the Ahtna exploration in the Copper River Basin is primarily for gas for local consumption. Heating oil costs are extreme in some of those communities, and it gets real cold around there in the winter, even by Alaska standards. Even a very small gas discovery would be worth it to those folks. Up on the North Slope, the community of Barrow is heated by a small gas field discovered way back in the early days.
Likewise, the Doyon exploration in the Nenana Basin could market even a small gas discovery to the Fairbanks local market. They would love to find oil, but for various reasons gas is the most likely scenario in the Nenana Basin. Yukon Flats is a real wild card. Nobody really knows what to expect in the subsurface there. True real deal wildcat country there. Also a very expensive place to explore.