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 PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska (AP) - Lowry Brott briefly closes his eyes as if he were listening to the first sounds of oil flowing 30 years ago from Alaska's North Slope into a pipeline that weaves 800 miles through several mountain ranges and hundreds of rivers and streams to Valdez.
"It was pretty robust," he said. "I'd compare it to a fast-moving freight train; that's what the sound was."
Today, oil production is in steady decline — about 6 percent a year — but the North Slope's largest operator, BP PLC, remains bullish about the future because of the region's untapped resources.
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