ConocoPhillips has a lot of work to do on the North Slope and company executives are looking for someone else to help pay for it.
They announced during a Nov. 19 analyst and investor meeting that... Read more
Hilcorp won’t officially take over the driver’s seat at Prudhoe Bay for at least a few months, but BP Alaska President Janet Weiss offered up the keys to the iconic oil field Nov. 20.
Weiss and... Read more
Hilcorp won’t officially take over the driver’s seat at Prudhoe Bay for at least a few months, but BP Alaska President Janet Weiss offered up the keys to the iconic oil field Nov. 20.
Weiss and... Read more
A huge chunk of Arctic Alaska is a big step closer to having a new land-use plan that could open millions of additional acres to oil and gas exploration.
The Bureau of Land Management released the... Read more
A small but long-awaited North Slope development has quietly started producing oil.
Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. achieved first oil from its Mustang project Oct. 30, according to Houston-based... Read more
The drafters of a voter initiative to increase production taxes on Alaska’s largest oil fields have sued Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer and the Division of Elections over problems with the summary of the... Read more
Cleaner only goes so far in producing electricity in cost-conscious countries, with coal holding a price advantage over imported natural gas.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency warned Nov.... Read more
An increasing number of Alaskans are calling for greater financial transparency from Hilcorp, the privately owned company seeking to buy BP’s North Slope assets, in part to ensure it has the... Read more
A new group calling itself OneAlaska has formed to fight a ballot initiative that seeks to boost production taxes paid by Alaska’s largest oil companies.
The group — consisting of small-business... Read more
China is a month away from getting its first Russian pipeline gas deliveries, which will help fuel the largest urbanized area in its North while also fueling speculation of what it will mean for... Read more
Conference season is in full swing in Alaska and the annual gathering of the players in the state’s biggest industries is right around the corner.
The Alaska Resources Conference hosted by the... Read more
Former Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell is spearheading a new effort to sell North Slope natural gas with an offshore Arctic LNG plant and icebreaking tankers.
Treadwell is CEO and chairman of the... Read more
Frustrated over how their proposed site for an LNG plant has been dismissed by leaders of the roughly $40 billion Alaska LNG Project, Matanuska-Susitna Borough officials are pointing to statements... Read more
The omnipresent issue of oil taxes could be on Alaska ballots next year.
Lt. Gov Kevin Meyer certified the “Fair Share Act” Oct. 15. The Department of Law’s 13-page analysis of the citizens’... Read more
French energy major Total is moving ahead with the $20-billion-plus Mozambique LNG project started by Anadarko Petroleum, which discovered the large offshore gas field in 2011 and with its partners... Read more
The company developing one of the largest oil prospects on the North Slope has applied with state regulators to change its plans and start producing oil a year early.
Oil Search Alaska submitted a... Read more
Just six days before the close of public comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Alaska LNG project, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough has accused federal regulators of failing to... Read more
The City of Valdez, which wants to see the Alaska LNG Project terminal built in its community rather than Nikiski, and an environmental legal organization have filed separate requests with federal... Read more
U.S. natural gas supply is outstripping demand, holding down prices and prompting speculation over just how low and how long the slide will continue; one research firm predicts prices next year will... Read more
ConocoPhillips is continuing its series of active North Slope work seasons with seven more exploration wells in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska this coming winter.
While the drilling will... Read more
Alaskans, it’s time to dust off your economics textbooks and dig the calculators out of the back of your junk drawers because the arcane issue of oil taxes is again about to be a hotly contested... Read more
Homer Electric Association members could soon see the benefit from a renegotiated natural gas supply contract that will save the Kenai Peninsula power cooperative more than $2.1 million.
HEA filed... Read more
A federal agency on Thursday recommended a plan to offer the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska for lease to oil and gas companies, rejecting more restrictive... Read more
Justices on the Alaska Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday morning in the lawsuit over oil and gas tax credit bonds that could have major ramifications for the state’s financial future.... Read more
Russian-led ventures earlier this month announced plans for two more liquefied natural gas terminals that would double the country’s production capacity by the mid-2020s.
One is in the Arctic and... Read more
ConocoPhillips has a lot of work to do on the North Slope and company executives are looking for someone else to help pay for it. They announced during a Nov. 19 analyst and investor meeting that... Read more
Hilcorp won’t officially take over the driver’s seat at Prudhoe Bay for at least a few months, but BP Alaska President Janet Weiss offered up the keys to the iconic oil field Nov. 20. Weiss and... Read more
A huge chunk of Arctic Alaska is a big step closer to having a new land-use plan that could open millions of additional acres to oil and gas exploration. The Bureau of Land Management released the... Read more
A small but long-awaited North Slope development has quietly started producing oil. Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. achieved first oil from its Mustang project Oct. 30, according to Houston-based... Read more
The drafters of a voter initiative to increase production taxes on Alaska’s largest oil fields have sued Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer and the Division of Elections over problems with the summary of the... Read more
Cleaner only goes so far in producing electricity in cost-conscious countries, with coal holding a price advantage over imported natural gas. The Paris-based International Energy Agency warned Nov.... Read more
China is a month away from getting its first Russian pipeline gas deliveries, which will help fuel the largest urbanized area in its North while also fueling speculation of what it will mean for... Read more
Conference season is in full swing in Alaska and the annual gathering of the players in the state’s biggest industries is right around the corner. The Alaska Resources Conference hosted by the... Read more
Former Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell is spearheading a new effort to sell North Slope natural gas with an offshore Arctic LNG plant and icebreaking tankers. Treadwell is CEO and chairman of the... Read more
The omnipresent issue of oil taxes could be on Alaska ballots next year. Lt. Gov Kevin Meyer certified the “Fair Share Act” Oct. 15. The Department of Law’s 13-page analysis of the citizens’... Read more
French energy major Total is moving ahead with the $20-billion-plus Mozambique LNG project started by Anadarko Petroleum, which discovered the large offshore gas field in 2011 and with its partners... Read more
The company developing one of the largest oil prospects on the North Slope has applied with state regulators to change its plans and start producing oil a year early. Oil Search Alaska submitted a... Read more
Just six days before the close of public comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Alaska LNG project, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough has accused federal regulators of failing to... Read more
U.S. natural gas supply is outstripping demand, holding down prices and prompting speculation over just how low and how long the slide will continue; one research firm predicts prices next year will... Read more
ConocoPhillips is continuing its series of active North Slope work seasons with seven more exploration wells in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska this coming winter. While the drilling will... Read more
Alaskans, it’s time to dust off your economics textbooks and dig the calculators out of the back of your junk drawers because the arcane issue of oil taxes is again about to be a hotly contested... Read more
Homer Electric Association members could soon see the benefit from a renegotiated natural gas supply contract that will save the Kenai Peninsula power cooperative more than $2.1 million. HEA filed... Read more
Justices on the Alaska Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday morning in the lawsuit over oil and gas tax credit bonds that could have major ramifications for the state’s financial future.... Read more
Russian-led ventures earlier this month announced plans for two more liquefied natural gas terminals that would double the country’s production capacity by the mid-2020s. One is in the Arctic and... Read more