Heard it’s going to be challenged in court???
This is not a Biden problem.
The NPRA where the Willow Project is located (National Petroleum Reserve Alaska) was evaluated to hold 7 billion barrels of oil in the late 1990s. There was no great basis for that estimate. It was an based on a presumption the Prudhoe Bay geology might extend.
Some exploratory drilling was done. Repeat, it WAS done. This is not guesswork. Just about 2009 or so the results of that drilling were reported and USGS announced there was less than 1/10th of the amount previously estimated. So as a result of measurements, not guesses, the new number was 600 million barrels.
In the world of oil this is not much. If you put a field there of several production wells that sum to maybe 150,000 barrels/day (a modest number), that is 54 million barrels/year. That entire 600 million barrels (and you never ever get it all) would last 12 year if 600 is correct and if you could get it all.
The Permian field produces 5.8 million barrels PER DAY. If this Willow Project turned into just 1 million barrels per day it would be empty in less than 2 years.
Understand numbers, people. The US consumes 20 million barrels PER DAY. That’s 7.3 billion barrels/year. This Willow Project would last a month of consumption.
Understand the numbers. And generally always presume some reporter with a degree in journalism can’t do math.