Rigs will be likely drilling new wells again soon in one of the country’s largest oil fields if state regulators approve Hilcorp Energy’s amended annual work plans.
Representatives for Hilcorp North... Read more
The managing director of an oil company pursuing a major project on Alaska’s North Slope has resigned, raising questions about the future of the project.
Keiran Wulff ran Oil Search’s Pikka project... Read more
State officials leading the Alaska LNG Project insist a new Department of Energy review of the massive natural gas export venture will find it would help lessen global greenhouse gas emissions if... Read more
The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered a supplemental environmental review of the full lifecycle of greenhouse-gas emissions from production on the North Slope to consumption by customers for the... Read more
Alaska’s $700 million-plus oil and gas tax credit obligation has been cut some but not because lawmakers are paying it down.
Leaders of the small North Slope explorer 88 Energy Ltd. announced June... Read more
Improving oil prices and a little better than expected North Slope production are bits of good news for Alaska’s budget situation, but everything is relative when compared against the worst of 2020... Read more
Nearly 30 years after ExxonMobil agreed to pay $900 million to help restore resources damaged by the company’s disastrous Prince William Sound oil spill, more money remains than was once expected,... Read more
Federal judges in recent weeks have reopened the door to more oil and gas exploration in Cook Inlet, but the immediate impact is uncertain.
Federal Western Louisiana District Court Judge Terry... Read more
Small independents did the bidding in Wednesday’s Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale that netted the Department of Natural Resources $451,594 from eight bids, according to the department's tally.... Read more
Nationally, oil company Hilcorp releases more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, than its much-larger U.S. peers, a new report shows.
But a closer look at Hilcorp’s operations in Alaska shows its... Read more
It took nearly four decades to get a bill opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain for oil exploration to the desk of a president who would sign it, but several months after the... Read more
Attorneys for the Interior Department argue in a court brief filed late Wednesday that conservation and Alaska Native groups filed suits to stop ConocoPhillips’ $6 billion Willow oil project too late... Read more
New ConocoPhillips Alaska President Erec Isaacson should have a pretty good idea of what it will take to remain competitive on the North Slope in the rapidly evolving oil industry. That’s because he... Read more
Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige has approved a sale of the state’s oil that could net up to $3 million in additional revenue over the coming year and more importantly sets... Read more
An unladen oil tanker that’s part of a growing number of foreign-flagged vessels transporting Alaska crude reportedly dragged its anchor for nearly four miles in rough Gulf of Alaska seas while... Read more
ConocoPhillips rebounded with a profit of nearly $1 billion in the first quarter, with $159 million of that coming from Alaska.
CEO Ryan Lance said during a May 4 conference call with investors that... Read more
Two years ago, Pioneer Natural Resources was reversing course and retrenching after Wall Street soured on the Irving-based oil and gas company.
“The market clearly isn’t paying for your business... Read more
ConocoPhillips has agreed with a coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups on a timeline to resolve a court dispute over the adequacy of the environmental review for its multibillion-dollar... Read more
The price for Alaska North Slope crude largely recovered months ago from the unprecedented fall it took a year ago, but if a recovery is also going to occur in Alaska’s oil workforce it has yet to... Read more
A newly published Outside economic outlook for oil and gas-heavy states backs up what local forecasters have been saying: It’s going to be a long slog back for Alaska.
The April 15 S&P Global... Read more
It appears officials in Alaska’s gasline agency are starting from scratch in their effort to secure more than $4 billion in federal money to jumpstart the Alaska LNG Project.
While still in concept... Read more
The leaders of a small Australian explorer believe they have continued a trend that is driving two of the largest North Slope prospects in decades.
88 Energy Ltd. has indicated in a series of... Read more
Lawmakers expressed skepticism toward the plan backed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to seek more than $4 billion in federal money to spur construction of the $39 billion Alaska LNG Project in their first... Read more
A decision to cut positions from the state agency charged with preventing oil spills despite potential new revenue is a step towards longer-term sustainability, according to the Dunleavy... Read more
The early results are promising in a years-long study of an advanced oil recovery method that could unlock billions more barrels on the North Slope.
“We have not failed; let me put it that way. We... Read more
Rigs will be likely drilling new wells again soon in one of the country’s largest oil fields if state regulators approve Hilcorp Energy’s amended annual work plans. Representatives for Hilcorp North... Read more
The managing director of an oil company pursuing a major project on Alaska’s North Slope has resigned, raising questions about the future of the project. Keiran Wulff ran Oil Search’s Pikka project... Read more
Alaska’s $700 million-plus oil and gas tax credit obligation has been cut some but not because lawmakers are paying it down. Leaders of the small North Slope explorer 88 Energy Ltd. announced June... Read more
Improving oil prices and a little better than expected North Slope production are bits of good news for Alaska’s budget situation, but everything is relative when compared against the worst of 2020... Read more
Nearly 30 years after ExxonMobil agreed to pay $900 million to help restore resources damaged by the company’s disastrous Prince William Sound oil spill, more money remains than was once expected,... Read more
Small independents did the bidding in Wednesday’s Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale that netted the Department of Natural Resources $451,594 from eight bids, according to the department's tally.... Read more
Nationally, oil company Hilcorp releases more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, than its much-larger U.S. peers, a new report shows. But a closer look at Hilcorp’s operations in Alaska shows its... Read more
It took nearly four decades to get a bill opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain for oil exploration to the desk of a president who would sign it, but several months after the... Read more
Attorneys for the Interior Department argue in a court brief filed late Wednesday that conservation and Alaska Native groups filed suits to stop ConocoPhillips’ $6 billion Willow oil project too late... Read more
New ConocoPhillips Alaska President Erec Isaacson should have a pretty good idea of what it will take to remain competitive on the North Slope in the rapidly evolving oil industry. That’s because he... Read more
Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige has approved a sale of the state’s oil that could net up to $3 million in additional revenue over the coming year and more importantly sets... Read more
An unladen oil tanker that’s part of a growing number of foreign-flagged vessels transporting Alaska crude reportedly dragged its anchor for nearly four miles in rough Gulf of Alaska seas while... Read more
ConocoPhillips rebounded with a profit of nearly $1 billion in the first quarter, with $159 million of that coming from Alaska. CEO Ryan Lance said during a May 4 conference call with investors that... Read more
Two years ago, Pioneer Natural Resources was reversing course and retrenching after Wall Street soured on the Irving-based oil and gas company. “The market clearly isn’t paying for your business... Read more
ConocoPhillips has agreed with a coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups on a timeline to resolve a court dispute over the adequacy of the environmental review for its multibillion-dollar... Read more
The price for Alaska North Slope crude largely recovered months ago from the unprecedented fall it took a year ago, but if a recovery is also going to occur in Alaska’s oil workforce it has yet to... Read more
It appears officials in Alaska’s gasline agency are starting from scratch in their effort to secure more than $4 billion in federal money to jumpstart the Alaska LNG Project. While still in concept... Read more
The leaders of a small Australian explorer believe they have continued a trend that is driving two of the largest North Slope prospects in decades. 88 Energy Ltd. has indicated in a series of... Read more
Lawmakers expressed skepticism toward the plan backed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to seek more than $4 billion in federal money to spur construction of the $39 billion Alaska LNG Project in their first... Read more
A decision to cut positions from the state agency charged with preventing oil spills despite potential new revenue is a step towards longer-term sustainability, according to the Dunleavy... Read more
The early results are promising in a years-long study of an advanced oil recovery method that could unlock billions more barrels on the North Slope. “We have not failed; let me put it that way. We... Read more