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Exxon plans pipeline (Full story)
ExxonMobil is moving forward with its plans for the Point Thomson project, applying for a right-of-way lease for construction of a pipeline to carry liquids production from the remote field on Alaska's eastern North Slope.
PTE Pipeline LLC, a Houston-based affiliate of ExxonMobil Pipeline Co., submi....
Apache talks Cook Inlet (Full story)
Managers with Apache Corp. were in Anchorage the week of Aug. 22, and they were sounding pretty bullish about their new acreage in Southcentral Alaska's Cook Inlet basin.
Apache's main interest is oil, although it's mindful of the ready local market for natural gas, said John Bedingfield, the co....
BLM to promote NPR-A (Full story)
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's upcoming integrated activity plan and associated environmental impact statement for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, or NPR-A, will improve the level of certainty for oil and gas leasing in the reserve, and the planning process will provide a transpar....
Badami restart: Savant plans to bring six wells on line in
BP-operated North Slope unit
The off-again, on-again story of BP's troubled Badami oil field, the most easterly of the developed fields on Alaska's North Slope, continues with a planned field restart in September. For the past two years independent oil company Savant Alaska and Arctic Slope Regional Corp. have been partnering w....
Harper waves Arctic flag; plans negotiations with Alaska to establish Beaufort boundary
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has just wrapped up his fifth annual summer swing through the Arctic, “vigorously defending” Canada's sovereignty claims in the region, pitching a new Arctic foreign policy statement and making a case for a commercially-viable, environmentally-sound development....
Enstar: protection, not guarantees
A newly proposed gas supply contract between Enstar Natural Gas and ConocoPhillips would give the utility a fifth and sixth line of defense when extreme cold causes natural gas consumption to peak in Southcentral Alaska, but still leaves Enstar without a guaranteed supply.
Under the non-firm cont....
Greenland oil hunt strikes gas
The hunt for commercial volumes of oil in offshore Greenland by Cairn Energy turned up natural gas in small quantities just as the Scottish-based explorer is negotiating the sale of its Indian subsidiary and Greenpeace is targeting Greenland oil and gas activities.
Cairn said Aug. 24 it is encourage....
RCA wants TAPS tariff hearings in Alaska
State regulators say they'll hold joint hearings with their federal counterparts to discuss shipping rates on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, but only if the hearings are held in Alaska.
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are separately considering wh....
Unconditional approval for LNG plant?
The companies that own the liquefied natural gas terminal on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula want the federal government to extend their export license by two years, without any conditions on that extension.
In an Aug. 17 letter to the U.S. Department of Energy, ConocoPhillips and Marathon challenged th....
Steady progress in the southern Kenai
Just a few years ago, oil and gas development on Alaska's southern Kenai Peninsula was a chicken and egg situation.
Now it's poised to become a hatchery.
When Armstrong Cook Inlet brings its North Fork oil and gas project into production early next year, it could be the push needed to bring seve....
Mitsubishi targets B.C. gas deposits
Japan has joined South Korea and China in a multi-billion dollar Asian parade into Western Canada's unconventional gas and oil sands region.
Industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi formed a joint-venture August 24 with Penn West Energy Trust for an initial outlay of C$850 million to pay for assets an....
DEC collecting Chukchi data
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in partnership with the University of Alaska School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences is collecting environmental data from the Chukchi Sea along the near-shore from Point Hope to Wainwright, DEC said Aug. 19. The $2.15-million study, part of a U.S.....
Northern Waters Task Force panel named
On Aug. 23 Alaska Senate President Gary Stevens and House Speaker Mike Chenault announced the names of people appointed to serve on the Northern Waters Task Force.
In March the Alaska Legislature passed a resolution mandating the formation of the task force, to assess and facilitate the creation of....
Linc files for well in Point MacKenzie area
The Alaska Coastal Management Program is reviewing Linc Energy's proposal to drill a well this fall in the Point MacKenzie area of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
The Australian company wants to drill the LEA No. 1 well to look for natural gas on ADL 390588, just north of Point MacKenzie Road across....
Canada's offshore in melting pot
The only deepwater well currently being drilled in Canadian waters is nearing completion in Newfoundland's Orphan Basin just ahead of what shapes up as a full-scale national debate on the future of offshore activity.
Unlike the Great Barasway F-66 wildcat, its predecessor in the same program, the.... |
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Oil Patch Bits: CMI holds annual customer appreciation barbecue
Construction Machinery Inc. held its annual customer appreciation barbecue on Aug. 19. The annual event, gives customers a chance to enjoy good food, this year provided by Sea Galley, and to preview equipment and speak with representatives from Volvo, Ingersoll Rand, Atlas Copco, Link-Belt, Skyjack,....
Oil Patch Bits: Crowley announces promotion of Evans and Otero
Crowley Maritime Corp said Aug. 19 that it is pleased to announce the promotion of Eric Evans and Tony Otero each to the role of vice president, finance and planning, supporting several different business groups within its holding company, Crowley Holdings Inc.
“Tony and Eric were promoted to their....
Mining News:Explorer expands metal-rich VMS at Niblack (Full story)
Heatherdale Resources Ltd., a subsidiary of Hunter Dickinson Inc., is living up to its pledge to aggressively explore the Niblack copper-gold-silver-zinc project on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Some 18,000 meters of drilling completed by the junior over the past year traced nearly....
Mining News: Japan plays key role in Alaska mining (Full story)
Japan is an important player in Alaska's mining industry. The island nation imports more than US$125 million in minerals from the Far North state annually and Tokyo-based businesses own the Pogo gold mine and are making significant investments in other mining projects across the state.
To fur....
Mining News: Columnist tips hat to mine developers (Full story)
In the last month, several of Alaska's major metal mines reported strong operating numbers; one company released a preliminary economic assessment and three new mineral exploration companies acquired exploration interests in Alaska.
While the functions of explorers and producers are quite differen....
Mining News: Resource quandary evokes famous poem (Full story)
As we approach the 2010 primary election (which will be history by the time this article is read), it is worth pondering how rapidly Alaskans, like the crewmates of the Ancient Mariner, are plunging toward oblivion in the midst of a sea of plenty. The warnings of those who opposed statehood are no....
Mining News: Explorers trek to mining-friendly Yukon (Full story)
THISTLE CREEK, Yukon Territory – The Bell Jet Ranger helicopter just landed, while the A-Star unloaded passengers before powering down its engines on the other side of the creek. A third, smaller copter whined as its rotors buffeted bystanders with gusts of dust and debris during takeoff. Meanwhil....
Mining News: Miners rock first-ever ‘Dawson Rocks' (Full story)
DAWSON, Yukon Territory – “If we hold it, they will come,” reasoned Mike Burke, head of Mineral Services at the Yukon Geological Survey.
True to his expectations, some 70 prospectors, geologists and junior companies flocked to a Front Street meeting hall here Aug. 11 for the first-ever “Dawson Roc....
Mining News: Juniors pour millions into Yukon projects (Full story)
DAWSON, Yukon Territory – Hardrock mining explorers are capitalizing on unprecedented investor interest and going after paying gold, silver, copper-rich porphyry, lead-zinc and other metal deposits here with uncommon gusto this summer.
A few years ago, a multimillion-dollar, single-season explo....
Mining News: Tower Hill unlikely to clone Fort Knox (Full story)
Having completed a preliminary economic assessment for the Livengood project in early August, International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. has shifted its focus toward bringing the multimillion-ounce gold property into production.
“Our operational team is making excellent progress in advancing the pr....
Mining News: Constantine expands VMS, gears up for gold (Full story)
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd.'s 7,500-meter drill program continues to unravel the complex geology of Glacier Creek Prospect at the Palmer copper-zinc-gold-silver project in Southeast Alaska.
The South Wall and RW zones at Glacier Creek has been the focus of Constantine's drilling since the ju....
Mining News: Explorers seek new uranium discoveries (Full story)
While intrepid juniors are busy pursuing another season of uranium exploration in Nunavut, the Government of Nunavut, in partnership with the federal government through the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office are participating in a major collaboration between government, industry and academia in hop....
In Memory of Sen. Ted Stevens: Stevens stood his ground for Alaska
Before Alaska could build an 800-mile long oil pipeline, sending Prudhoe Bay crude to market, there was a debt that needed repaying: land owed to Alaska Natives.
It was a century old obligation that would nearly cost freshman Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens his job.
Instead, he turned the nation's....
In Memory of Sen. Ted Stevens: Senator Stevens' support
of Arctic research (Full story)
Sen. Ted Stevens played a key role in the development of science facilities throughout Alaska, particularly in rural Alaska. He felt that solutions based on science could help solve many of the problems communities faced. He also understood that climate change was real, and happening quickly.
I....
In Memory of Sen. Ted Stevens: Ted Stevens: An Alaska mentor (Full story)
I braved the dusty AlCan Highway in my 1961 Ford station wagon after graduating from Colorado State in 1965. Rooming for a week in Anchorage's Parsons Hotel, I waved at the Beetles one afternoon in the alley behind the Hilton. That — along with Alaska's other attractions — hooked me on the place.
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