12 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Wednesday, May 9,1984 NEAR PRUDHOE BAY Huge oil field found off Alaska HOUSTON (AP) - Shell Oil Co. has found a giant oil field off the Alaskan coast that contains more than 100 million barrels of recoverable oil, company officials said. The discovery well is in the Beaufort Sea, 50 nautical miles east of a dry hole drilled on the Mukluk prospect and five nautical miles off the northern coast of Alaska, officials told the Houston Chronicle. The Seal Island prospect is the first Beaufort Sea discovery to be declared commercial, an industry term for a field that can be drilled profitably at current market prices. Industry experts consider the Beaufort Sea one of the most promising oil and gas exploration frontiers in North America. Only one-half of one per cent of the 40,000 wells drilled in the American oil industry’s 125-year history are what experts call giants — fields that contain the equivalent of at least 100 million barrels of recovera- ble oil or natural gas. The field is located about 12 nautical miles northwest of the Prudhoe Bay oil field, one of the world’s 10 largest. H. H. Howard, general manager of Shell’s Rocky Mountain and Pacific divisions, said he doesn’t expect the Seal Island prospect to match Prudhoe Bay’s holdings. The field also lies under leases owned by Amoco Production Co., Amerada Hess Corp. and Texas Eastern Exploration Co. Production could begin in eight to 10 years, said Howard, who declined to estimate development costs. Expenses for the well total $23 million so far, company officials said. Other exploratory costs, including building a gravel island, were $154.6 million, they said. Initial tests by Houston-based Shell showed oil flowing at rates between 600 and 5,000 barrels a day. Sunshine not for everyone WASHINGTON (AP) — While the flow of Americans from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt in recent years has been widely noted, government figures also disclose that hundreds of thousands of people swam against the stream. The 1980 United States census documented the rapid growth of the South and West, much of it at the expense of the older industrial areas in the north-central and northeastern states. But a detailed study of state-by-state migration shows there was a smaller, but still significant, movement in the opposite direction. The migration figures were based on a question that asked people to give their home address at the time of the census and what it had been in 1975. Thus, while 2.594,098 people reported moving from the Northeast to the South and West be- tween 1975 and 1980, the study also found that 915,165 relocated in the other direction. The biggest single state-to-state movement during the five-year span was the largely retirement-oriented movement from New York to Florida. It accounted for a southerly shift of 364,450 people. But during the same period, 49,452 people moved north from the Sunshine State to the Empire State. The motive — job relocation and young ambition. California in recent years has declined in attractiveness to the elderly. Although California gained the most people during the five years studied, adding 1,877,289 people who moved from other states, it also lost 1,782,831 people, for a net gain of only 94,458. The biggest net gain from migration was in Florida at 823,227, the result of 1,801,362 people moving in and 978,135 leaving. firiBus DISCOVER JHemortf Crajt-J 6000 at 460 Brunswlck st. THE HOME SEWING COMPUTER 562-2658 Another reason JANOME has become the fastest growing sewing machine supplier in Canada. 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