From Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: 
Petroleum News reports that exploration work is looking up on the North Slope, with Repsol, a major Spanish company, hoping to drill up to 15 wells this winter.

The newspaper account says:

Repsol YPF S.A. is planning to conduct one of the broadest single-season North Slope exploration campaigns in recent memory, according to recently filed documents.

The Spanish major plans to run five rigs this winter to drill as many as 15 wells and sidetracks from five ice pads to onshore and offshore central North Slope targets.

The five proposed drilling locations would run down the fairway between the Colville River unit to the west and the Oooguruk and Kuparuk River units to the east.

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