Not to be confused with either the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the desolate 23 million acre NPRA region was first established as an oil reserve for the U.S. Navy in 1923.

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Although Conoco Phillips wants to build a road bridge and pipeline over the Coleville River on the edge of NPRA to move drilling supplies in and oil and gas out, the Army Corps of Engineers, backed by environmental groups, said no.

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