ConocoPhillips goes its own way 12/09/2007
Company rejects AGIA, submits own proposal to state for North Slope natural gas project; says it requires no matching funds
ConocoPhillips did not submit an application under Gov. Sarah Palin's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act but the company has put a non-AGIA proposal before the state. None of the major gas holders on the N...

AGIA bids in 12/09/2007
Administration begins completeness review; no producers among five applicants
The State of Alaska received five applications under Gov. Sarah Palin's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act - the state's bid to get development of a gas pipeline project with $500 million in state matching...

ANGDA promotes in-state gas options 11/11/2007
Far from special legislative session debates over the troubled PPT, the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority is quietly focused on making North Slope natural gas available to Alaska residents, uti...

Back in the game 09/16/2007
Bill Armstrong team returns to Alaska, this time in the Cook Inlet basin
The independent responsible for bringing three new oil companies to Alaska's North Slope in 2002-05 is back in the state - this time in Southcentral Alaska's Cook Inlet basin. A newly formed, local af...

Pearce sets record straight 09/09/2007
Federal coordinator for Alaska gas line clarifies, corrects statements quoted in press
Sept. 5 news reports carried statements from Drue Pearce, the federal coordinator for Alaska gas pipeline projects, that were incorrect, Pearce's communication director Jennifer Thompson told Petroleu...

Arctic gas slammed 06/03/2007
Exxon puts cost-pressures on Alaska, Mackenzie gas lines; Imperial disagrees
Hopes of developing the Arctic natural gas resources of the United States and Canada got a bleak assessment May 30 from ExxonMobil's chief executive officer, who pinned the future of the two projects...

Over-the-top back again 05/13/2007
Northwest Territories cabinet minister ready to talk combined Alaska, Mackenzie gas lines
More often than not, it's been the unwanted guest at the party, but it has kept reappearing at intervals over the past 30 years. It's the so-called "over-the-top" route, an option barred under Alaska...

TransCanada only interested in part of deal 04/01/2007
Pipeline company does not believe it worthwhile to move on to FERC certificate if initial open season fails to draw sufficient gas
TransCanada is interested in participating in the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act application process - but not as the administration is currently proposing that the AGIA process would work. "We are con...

Meeting MGP's economics 03/25/2007
May go back to reject pile, such as 'over-the-top' route, federal stake in Mac line
Now that cost estimates are no longer a crapshoot for the Mackenzie Gas Project - beyond those wondering if Imperial Oil deliberately inflated the numbers to squeeze the best fiscal terms out of the...

ANGDA goes local 02/04/2007
Alaska Gas Market System looks at 1.25 bcf line to Southcentral, Valdez
Hung out to dry during the Murkowski administration - which focused exclusively on a project by the major Prudhoe Bay owners to take Alaska North Slope gas to the Lower 48 - the Alaska Natural Gas Dev...

Looking for hazards on the AK Highway route 12/17/2006
DGGS airborne geophysical survey pinpoints locations of geologic faults, areas of permafrost in an important transportation corridor
Spurred by the possibility of future pipeline, railroad or other infrastructure along the route of the Alaska Highway, Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys is conducting a study int...