Enstar examines its options if Southcentral has cold winter 11/07/2010
Enstar Natural Gas Co.'s gas supply situation is very tight going into the coming winter, Colleen Starring, Enstar's president, told the Anchorage Energy Task Force on Nov. 3. Enstar is the main South...

Legislators hear from new in-state natural gas line team 08/15/2010
Fauske, head of AGDC, promises practical report based on HB 369; predicts subsidy required, but wants a one-time infusion
The new in-state natural gas team is organized, meeting with prospective natural gas suppliers and users, and is working on requests for proposals for evaluations of gas-to-liquids projects, liquefied...

Cook Inlet needs $2.8B 03/28/2010
Study assesses investment in new CI wells to maintain adequate Southcentral gas
Anew study into Southcentral Alaska utility natural gas supplies from the gas fields of the Cook Inlet basin has concluded that gas producers will likely have to sink up to $2.8 billion into new gas w...

Big Risk, Bigger Rewards: Alaska's Cook Inlet basin 02/14/2010
Cook Inlet, a major sea inlet between the Kenai Peninsula and the mainland of Southcentral Alaska, lies over part of a deep sedimentary basin that has formed between the Kenai Mountains and the mounta...

Noah tells legislators time to choose 01/03/2010
Says Legislature funding too many options, confusing market; Irwin says information isn't in for standalone or AGIA line to market
Alaska legislators heard two different views in mid-December of what they should do about gas projects in the state: Harry Noah, the outgoing project manager for the state's in-state gas project, said...

Noah: standalone line work on schedule 12/20/2009
Parks Highway route selected because it is shorter, could cost less; gas conditioning in Cook Inlet, at PBU facilities, considered
Harry Noah, special manager of the in-state gas pipeline project, told Alaska legislators Dec. 16 that the standalone or bullet line - a project which would deliver gas just within Alaska, not to outs...

Alberta touts carbon capture prospects 12/13/2009
The Alberta government may not be putting all of its climate-change strategies in one basket, but it's coming close as it pursues recognition as a world leader in advancing carbon capture and storage...

The Explorers 2009: Cook Inlet basin 11/15/2009
Cook Inlet, a major sea inlet between the Kenai Peninsula and the mainland of Southcentral Alaska, lies over part of a deep sedimentary basin that has formed between the Kenai Mountains and the mounta...

Canada backs carbon capture 10/25/2009
Governments commit C$1.65B to 2 projects, claim they lead world in developing technology; others say industry should do cleanup
Canadian and Alberta taxpayers are starting to feel a rather large hand in their pockets as the two governments roll out plans for carbon capture and storage projects - their key technological initiat...

October target for ROW applications 09/06/2009
State's standalone gas line project will permit two routes, one along Parks Highway, one along Richardson and Glenn highways
A state-directed team working on costs and feasibility for a standalone Alaska gas pipeline aims to have a summary of alternative routes complete by early September, including a Parks Highway route wh...

Canada to match US climate-change rules 07/05/2009
Canada will play ball with the United States on climate-change regulations to avoid crippling tariffs on its oil exports, but will continue to press its case in Washington for other clean-energy alter...

In-state gas feasibility study begins 06/21/2009
Legislators get update from Harry Noah, governor's in-state gas coordinator; contract let to engineering firm Michael Baker Engineers
Harry Noah, the governor's in-state gas coordinator, updated legislators June 5 on the work plan his office is doing on in-state natural gas. Noah said the underlying problem is that Alaska has "no c...

Mining News: Red Dog tops EPA toxic release inventory 04/26/2009
Federal regulator's annual report reflects scale of the world's largest lead-zinc mine, not its outstanding environmental record
In its largely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented Toxic Release Inventory report, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranked the Red Dog zinc mine in Northwest Alaska as the largest enti...

More perspectives on the CI gas market 03/22/2009
Banks says 470 bcf could be developed in existing fields; CEA wants resource management plan; MLandP pushes for state intervention
The Cook Inlet gas cliff - the apocalyptic graph that shows a precipitous decline in gas production over the next few years - has the capability of making even the hardiest resident of Southcentral Al...

Armstrong prepping supply contract 03/15/2009
Successful test well at North Fork means issue of gas pricing will return before state regulators; company asking for $7 to $10
For Cook Inlet explorers, finding gas is only half the battle. Selling it is the other half. Following a successful test well in the southern Kenai Peninsula last summer, Armstrong Cook Inlet seems to...

Agrium and the Cook Inlet gas market 03/08/2009
When Agrium Inc. bought the Nikiski fertilizer plant on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula from Unocal Corp. in 2000, Agrium expressed optimism that fertilizer production at Nikiski would enhance Agrium's posit...

State lays out plan for bullet line 03/08/2009
'Action plan' and a pair of bills would coordinate efforts toward construction of $4 billion gas pipeline into Southcentral; greatest state involvement in 'bullet line' efforts to this point
The Palin administration is taking a more active role in the construction of a $4 billion pipeline to deliver northern natural gas to communities along the Alaska road system. Gov. Sarah Palin introdu...