I am a geologist with 63 years experience, including Alaska where I have worked with two of the finest geologists in my career, Dr. Myers and Dr. Houseknecht.  Both have very favorable opinions of the Nanushuk discoveries and the very large areal extent of this oil accumulation.  There is an awful lot of BS in the oil patch, including shale fracking which has been called a massive Ponzi scheme, resulting in devastated investors and rapidly depleting oil and gas, much of which never will pay out.  Alaska oil and gas reserves are world class, and if the state will economically encourage instead of trying to maximize taxes and in so doing, minimize development and production, a very short sighted idea in a state whose people get annual checks from oil taxes, and pay no income tax.   Alaska is very fortunate having people like Bill Armstrong who do what they say, find oil, and pay their bills.  The state's history of "independents" has not been very good in this regard.