Additionally, this information would help already enrolled college students pin down a major field of study, something that most find difficult as evidenced by statistics suggesting that at least half of students change their majors at least once.

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"We think that the future may be sooner than some of us are considering, " Robert Hunter, president of ASRC Energy Services, which led the first major field study in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay with BP Alaska Exploration and the Department of Energy, told Petroleum News.

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"We think that the future may be sooner than some of us are considering, " Robert Hunter, president of ASRC Energy Services, which led the first major field study in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay with BP (nyse: BP - news - people ) Alaska Exploration and the Department of Energy, told Petroleum News.

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