Arctic Directory: AIC wins Juneau area construction contracts 03/21/2010
Alaska Interstate Construction LLC said Sept. 3 that it recently won two construction contracts in the Juneau area of Southeast Alaska. The company successfully bid for the principal civil and piping...

Oil Patch Bits: AIC wins two Juneau area construction contracts 09/13/2009
Alaska Interstate Construction LLC said Sept. 3 that it recently won two construction contracts in the Juneau area of Southeast Alaska. The company successfully bid for the principal civil and piping...

Moving on Liberty 05/03/2009
SDI, river bridge upgrade and drilling rig construction near completion
After years of planning and design there are now tangible signs on the ground of progress towards first oil from BP's 100 million-barrel Liberty field, offshore in the Beaufort Sea, about 15 miles eas...

Arctic Directory: Nabors names new leader 01/25/2009
Nabors Industries, the world's largest land drilling contractor, has named Dennis Smith, 58, to oversee its Alaska operations. The company's Alaska operations include Nabors Alaska Drilling, the larg...

Oil Patch Bits: Nabors names new leader 08/24/2008
Nabors Industries, the world's largest land drilling contractor, has named Dennis Smith, 58, to oversee its Alaska operations. This includes Nabors Alaska Drilling, the largest drilling contractor in...

Petroleum Directory: Frank Chandler joins AIC 07/20/2008
Alaska Interstate Construction LLC (AIC) said April 4 that Frank Chandler has joined the company as chief estimator. Chandler brings 35 years of professional experience in highway, airport, waterline,...

Oil Patch Bits 04/13/2008
Frank Chandler joins AIC
Alaska Interstate Construction LLC said April 4 that Frank Chandler has joined the company as chief estimator. Chandler brings 35 years of professional experience in highway, airport, waterline, sewer...

MINING NEWS: Seawall fails, but Kivalina battles back 09/30/2007
Kivalina residents chased away by flood warnings began trickling back home early Sept. 14 after the season's first storm died down, ending its assault on a frail seawall guarding the northwest coastal...

MINING NEWS: Pogo bounds up steep learning curve 03/26/2006
Teck-Pogo management confident challenges can be met as Alaska's newest mine heads for full production; more miners needed
In the early days of exploration at a property near the small town of Delta Junction in Interior Alaska, a bunch of geologists who'd had a few too many beers began jumping up and down. They may have b...

MINING NEWS: Mines generate Precision Power contracts 02/26/2006
Anchorage company supplied equipment at short notice for ice roads to Russian project; also working at Pogo and Nixon Fork mines
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was not the ideal time to be scouring the country for three 3,500-gallon-per-minute pumps, but that's exactly what Anchorage-based Precision Power needed last fall t...

Borough gets Deadhorse acreage from state 10/23/2005
Municipal entitlement would include almost half of Deadhorse Lease Tracts, home to the North Slope's service and supply industry
The State of Alaska is proposing to cede the North Slope Borough almost half of the surface acreage at Deadhorse on the North Slope as part of the borough's municipal entitlement of some 90,000 acres....

MINING NEWS: Coeur gets down to business at Kensington 07/24/2005
Environmental controls, tree-felling, construction already under way at gold project near Juneau after final permits received
There was hardly time to pour the champagne before putting on the hard hats. Within days of receiving their final permit in late June, Coeur d'Alene was moving equipment to start work on construction...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Ranes and Shine Welding maintains a climate of versatility, innovation and excellence 05/15/2005
The Ranes and Shine Welding facility in Anchorage holds the power to impress all on its own. The two-and-a-half acre lot and 12,000 square foot building, together with a series of functional and innovat...

Jerry Hood tapped to head Arctic Power in D.C. 02/20/2005
Buckley reverses; Stevens fires latest pro-ANWR salvo in war of rhetoric
Arctic Power, the lead research and advocacy group that promotes opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, is poised to add new muscle to its lobbying effort in Washington, D.C. Fo...

THE EXPLORERS 2004: Kerr-McGee finds oil on North Slope 11/30/2004
Armstrong snags Oklahoma independent as partner; discovery announced four months later
Happy New Year, Alaska. That was the front page headline in the Jan. 11, 2004, Petroleum News story which broke the news about Kerr-McGee entering Alaska. Over the Christmas holiday big independent Ke...

Alaska partners ready for North Slope natural gas line 02/08/2004
Native corporations, Pacific Star Energy in line for 19.9 percent share
The Alaska partners in MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.'s bid to build and operate a North Slope natural gas pipeline say they intend to exercise their options to take a combined 19.9 percent ownership...

Happy New Year, Alaska 01/11/2004
Armstrong brings new player, independent Kerr-McGee, to North Slope
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has made bringing new players to the oil rich North Slope a priority for his administration. Last year, Bill Armstrong brought Pioneer Natural Resources to the slope as ope...

Exploring Northwest Kuparuk, part two in a series 03/16/2003
Operator Pioneer Natural Resources and partner Armstrong Oil and Gas (Armstrong Resources in Alaska) have finished drilling their first well, Ivik 1, at the Kuparuk Northwest prospect offshore Alaska'...

Green Star hands out 3 awards 05/12/2002
A nonprofit environmental group has recognized three Alaska businesses for recycling, reducing waste, preventing pollution and increasing energy efficiency. Green Star presented Green Star Awards to A...

Positioning module flare boom on Northstar Island a challenge 07/30/2001
When BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s Northstar field production facilities arrive at Northstar Island in mid-August, contractors will install the compressor module. The positioning of this massive modu...

Northstar modules sail, destination North Slope 07/30/2001
On July 25, a Crowley Marine barge carrying two 10 story modules left Anchorage bound for BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s Northstar oil project in the Beaufort Sea. Towed by Crowley tug Navigator, bar...