The Mt. Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, part of the "Methane Hydrate Research and Development (R&D) Program,"[REF] was located on the Alaska North Slope within the Milne Point Unit of the greater Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.
The Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well was drilled from an ice pad constructed to protect sensitive arctic tundra with drilling operations designed to verify the nature of one of fourteen gas hydrate prospects previously identified by the project within the Milne Point Unit.