Duane, I'm here to make you happy whether you like it or not ;-)  In the 21stCentury we are realizing many of the mistakes we made in the 20thCentury when we were busy correcting the mistakes we made in the 1800's.

The big corporate institutions (including BigOil) are rooted in maintaining the heavy investments they made in their now inefficient and obsolete technology. 

New gas-based refineries are mobile-modular and can easily be mass produced for locations all over Alaska, to make finished refined value-added products locally in hi-volume. Study micro-GTL/GTG, Siluria is one of many.

100% of tight-heavy arctic crudeoil can be efficiently produced when it's sweetened in-situ with electroactivated-water rich in ionized hydrogen. But it's easier to get syngas-feedstock from coal and biomass, so oil companies are on a fools errand misleading the fools following them.

goog:  lyondellbasell siluria

goog:  braskem siluria

goog:  ethylene siluria