Alaska’s North Slope has been in “Renaissance mode” recently, with continued developmental breakthroughs from the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk legacy fields, to new fields coming online through the majors and smaller companies like ENI and Oil Search. While total production still hovers around 465,000 barrels per day from the Slope, the projects noted previously should push that number over 500,000 barrels soon. An article in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner this morning highlighted the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming comment period (through July 22) pertaining to which lands should be available for oil leasing in the National…