Eric Keto, Alaska’s Energy Desk

If you’re looking for oil, it helps to have an idea about the geologic formations below the Earth’s surface.

In 1986, the price of oil tanked. Thousands of people left the state.

Adam Owen is responsible for 100 miles of the largest piece of infrastructure in Alaska.

In Alaska, we don’t pay income tax. We don’t pay sales tax. But once a year every man, woman and child gets a cut of the state’s oil wealth.

The trans-Alaska pipeline was the largest privately-funded construction project in the world, built across the biggest U.S. state and faced with unprecedented natural obstacles.

The building of the trans-Alaska pipeline drew thousands of young workers from around the country to Alaska.