BP "internal" documents, "discovered" in tax court, stated that BP`s Alaska holdings would be very profitable for BP to at least 2065 and beyond.   
  Oil was about what it is now when they said that. 
Their written documents EVEN said "that applies in the narrow case that no more oil is EVER discovered and added to TAPS".....!  
   So any REALLY “new” oil additions (from genuinely new discoveries, or shale oil fracking or hydrates, or new gas or gas liquids finds...as unlikely as that would seem....) any of those likely resource additions would push the date out even further than 2065!  
  That`s a far cry from what the public had been led to believe to that point by the industry and Parnell and this caucus, about how TAPS could shut down in 8 years if not granted massive tax breaks to keep pumping legacy fields.   The link following...