Winx #1 Ice Road - Cruz Construction – Alaska Oilfield ...
Client Captivate Energy Alaska Date 2018 Cost $4 Million About In the fall of 2018 Captivate Energy Alaska selected Cruz Construction to construct and maintain a 12 mile ice road in support of their exploration program. Cruz completed the ice road ahead of schedule and continued to provide maintenance support throughout Captivate
Ice Road Construction and Civil Services - Northern …
PEAK Alaska; Ice Road Construction and Civil Services. NES is the premiere privately owned ice road contractor on the North Slope. NES employees have been building ice roads for the last 20 years and are recognized industry experts in the field.
Incidental Take Authorization: Hilcorp Alaska and Eni Ice ...
Upon application from Hilcorp Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp) and Eni US Operating Co. Inc. (Eni), NOAA Fisheries is issuing regulations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) for the taking of small numbers of marine mammals incidental to ice road and ice trail construction, maintenance, and operation in Alaska's North Slope, over the course of 5 years (2020-2025).
Public Officials: Hesden Scougal - University of Alaska ...
Segment 11) Scougal would have called the winter ice road the Hickel Trail, not the Hickel Highway. There are many trails with names. Scougal does not know why the governor named it the Hickel Highway. This resulted in people thinking it was a road. He knows of one trucker that attempted to haul supplies on the winter ice road, but could not ...
Black Gold Express - Heavy Haul Trucking
Black Gold Express knows Alaska. Alaska is a mammoth state with extreme weather, grueling road conditions, and demanding regulations. For more than 30 years, Black Gold Express has operated out of our Fairbanks hub, and our customers are our neighbors and friends. You can count on Black Gold Express to partner with you for the long haul.
How to Build an Ice Road - Pacific Standard
A given ice road or winter road might cost one million dollars to build, Conway says—but an all-weather road could cost 100 or 200 times that. (The still-under-construction road from Inuvik, in the Mackenzie River delta, up to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic coast, is slated to cost at least $300 million in initial construction costs, with at least ...
Travel Alaska - Dalton Highway from Fairbanks
Forget the fast pace of the Ice Road Truckers – you'll want to take your time driving the Dalton Highway.The Dalton takes you through boreal forest, high alpine, and rolling tundra as you head nearly 500 miles north from Fairbanks to Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope.
Ice road - Wikipedia
An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse). Ice roads are typically part of a winter road, but they can also be simple stand-alone structures, connecting two shorelines. Ice roads may be planned, built and maintained so as to remain safe and effective, and a number of guidelines have been published with ...
Ice-road construction reaches new levels in Arctic Alaska ...
Ice-road construction reaches new levels in Arctic Alaska. A Cruz Construction mechanics' truck leaves an exploration rig in Umiat, Alaska, via …
Truck driver in hot seat on Alaska 'Ice Road' show ...
Now, Veilleux, 44, is one of the featured truckers on "Ice Road Truckers." A new 16-week series of the reality show began this month on The History Channel. Veilleux is portrayed as the "rookie ...
Nanuq/ Alaska Frontier Constructors – Village Corporation ...
Nanuq/ Alaska Frontier Constructors. Nanuq, Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kuukpik Corporation whose goal is to continue employing qualified North Slope Borough residents who understand the environment and conditions of working in the Arctic. All Nanuq work is performed to meet the highest industry standards.
Waiting for winter: ice roads mean ... - Alaska Public Media
Listen now. On a dim, seven-degree day in January, a van slowly lurches down the beginnings of an ice road on Alaska's North Slope. Jeff Osborne, who …
FirstHand, the Podcast, Explores Alaska's Gravel Highway ...
(Anchorage) – The Cooper Landing Bypass is the largest road construction project underway in Alaska today. For the first time ever a rider can book a sailing a year out, on an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry. There's more transportation infrastructure talk, unique to Alaska, on Episode 2 of FirstHand, the podcast, with our guest Ryan Anderson, the new Commissioner of the …
Careers in ice road trucking | Institute for Transportation
One who goes into ice road trucking should certainly be aware of the hazards that come with the job. Some are obvious—like the fact that -50 to -60 degree temperature days are anything but out of the ordinary. Or that the average daily temperature in Alaska during ice road trucking months in 34 degrees Fahrenheit.
Arctic Change - Land: Roads
Transportation on the frozen Arctic land depends on the use of ice roads. Rising temperatures are leading to a shortening of ice road transport seasons and the melting ice roads are creating transportation challenges. The opening dates for tundra roads in northern Alaska has shifted two months later from early November (pre-1991) to January ...
ALASKA OPERATIONS UPDATE: ICE ROAD CONSTRUCTION …
• Ice road construction approximately 85% complete ... Western Blocks, Pikka B well, Alaska North Slope and Nanushuk Fairway The primary objective of the Winx-1 exploration well is the Nanushuk Topset play, targeting the Nanushuk 4 and 5 sands. As can be seen in Figure 3, the Winx prospect has been identified using the Nanuq South 3D which ...
Alaska's Ice Road Driving School - Home | Facebook
Alaska's Ice Road Driving School. November 12, 2018 ·. Ice roads are present just a little. 3 Comments. Like Comment Share. Alaska's Ice Road Driving School added 3 new photos — with Deanne Maxwell Watford and 10 others. August 12, 2016 ·.
ALASKA OPERATIONS UPDATE: ICE ROAD AND ICE PAD ...
Western Blocks, North Slope of Alaska. • Ice road construction 99% completed • Ice pad construction 95% completed 35 • Preparation for rig mobilisation underway POSTAL ADDRESS • Spud of Winx-1 scheduled for mid-February 2019 RMP is pleased to announce that construction of the requisite ice road to the Winx-1 well
ice road trucking Archives - KCAW
ice road trucking. 'Mothertrucker' author Amy Butcher was looking for a story in northern Alaska. She found a friend instead. Author Amy Butcher's book "Mothertrucker" was published on November 1. The memoir tells the story of Butcher's road trip down one of America's deadliest roads. KCAW spoke with Butcher about the book and her ...
Alaska-based Soldiers jump at unique training opportunity ...
A group of Soldiers from the Fort Richardson, Alaska, are getting a unique training opportunity this winter as they help build an 'ice road' to help support the …
Understanding Ice Roads - Alaska Business Magazine
Ice road construction requires a minimum snow depth of 6 inches, with the top 12 inches of tundra frozen to at least 23 F°— with an optimal ambient temperature of -20 …
Arctic Economics: How do you build an ice road?
Ice roads are expensive: In Alaska's Prudhoe Bay NPR-A region of the North Slope, the cost to construct an ice road is approximately $100,000 per mile. It takes about a day to complete one mile of ice road in the short season of only 100 to 120 days when temperatures are cold enough to sustain it.... In addition to these costs, construction ...
Design And Construction Of Sea Ice Roads In The Alaskan ...
This presentation attempts to emphasize the aspects of ice road design and construction peculiar to offshore operations in northern Alaska. Offshore exploratory drilling in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea is currently 1imited by State and Federal regulation to the period November 1 to March 31. Offshore operators must therefore work under a severe ...
Ice Roads: The Western North Slope's frozen foundation ...
Ice road construction teams are placed at various start points along the ice road route. The teams build the roads, working toward each other, in 10- to 15-mile sections, until there is a web of roads connecting construction and exploration efforts to …
Design And Construction Of Sea Ice Roads In The Alaskan ...
ABSTRACT To service offshore drill sites in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea, Sohio Petroleum Company has constructed a network of floating sea ice roads during the early winters of 1978-79 and 1980-81. Such construction involves the grading and leveling of bottom-founded ice in near shore regions, and the pumping of thin layers of underlying seawater onto floating ice to augment the natural buildup rate.
Alaska 511
Provides up to the minute traffic and transit information for Alaska. View the real time traffic map with travel times, traffic accident details, traffic cameras and other road conditions. Plan your trip and get the fastest route taking into account current traffic conditions.
Oil & Gas Projects – Cruz Construction
Over two winter seasons, the Umiat Exploration project included the construction of 202 miles of snow Trail, 20 miles of Ice Road, Five 500'x 500' ice pads, 18 significant ice crossings, operation of three camps with approximate peak capacity of 120 people, 729 round trip all-terrain vehicle loads for a total of 147,500 miles of travel including transport and support of Kuukpik Drill Rig 5.
Civil / Ice Road Construction - NES
Civil/Ice Road Construction. Ice Roads – At NES, our ice road experience began in the late 1980s, and our pioneering methods continue today. Ice roads offer the best means for moving heavy equipment and workers through roadless areas while protecting the fragile ground beneath; We …
ICE ROADS IN ALASkA
create ice roads during the winter months. An ice road is a stretch of temporary roadway mapped out on frozen tundra bays, rivers, lakes and even seas. They connect land, waterways and winter roads. As summer approaches they simply melt away, resulting in little environmental impact. The following winter the ice road construction process starts ...
Alaska - Ice Road Supervisor/Project Engineer in Anchorage ...
Ability to work closely, gain trust, and build consensus with WNS Ice organization, ice road contractors, and COP Alaska's operations, drilling & wells, projects, and exploration organizations Background in Civil Engineering / Design / Construction for both ice and gravel roads