Eighty million acres of the Gulf of Mexico — an area twice the size of Florida — was put on the auction block on Wednesday.
"Exxon Mobil Corp."
Exxon hopes Point Thomson is down payment on a gas line
The field sits on the coast about 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay, near the edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. When it’s fully online, it’ll send about 10,000 barrels a day of diesel-like oil down the trans-Alaska pipeline.