THE EXPLORERS 2007: Small independents in high gear 11/18/2007
Five small EandP gas companies plan to drill exploration wells on Alaska's North Slope winter 2007-08
Five small independent oil and gas companies expect to drill exploration wells on Alaska's North Slope in the winter exploration season of 2007-08. In the past, the highest number of small independent...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Alaska gets $2 million from lease sales 11/18/2007
An Alaska investor group and a new company dominated the State of Alaska's annual North Slope and Beaufort Sea areawide lease sales. When bids were read Oct. 24 in Anchorage by Acting Director of the...

BRPC to drill 3-4 wells on three prospects, North Shore development possible 10/28/2007
In testimony to the Alaska Legislature on Oct. 22, Alaska Venture Capital Group Managing Director Ken Thompson said AVCG and its joint venture partners in Brooks Range Petroleum Corporation Group are...

Small independent on board with ACES 10/28/2007
Thompson: ACES train has left station, AVCG wants five things to remain in Palin's bill, four to be changed, favors 22.5% rate
By mid-2008 Alaska Venture Capital Group and its partners will have invested more than $100 million in their oil and gas properties in Alaska, including drilling two exploration wells last winter, one...

Pioneer Natural Resources drops Cronus unit 05/06/2007
Disappointing results from 2005-06 exploration well behind decision to relinquish former ConocoPhillips North Slope prospect
Pioneer Natural Resources is planning to terminate the North Slope Cronus unit where it drilled the Cronus 1 exploration well in the winter 2005-06 drilling season. "While the well penetrated oil bea...

Brooks Range spuds well 02/11/2007
Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. has spud the North Shore No. 1 well on Alaska's central North Slope, north of the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the company announced Feb. 8. The well will test an oil accumulati...

Brooks Range files drilling plan 12/17/2006
Two wells and a sidetrack will test three North Slope prospects in the Gwydyr Bay area; possibility of an additional well
Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. has submitted its plan of operations to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources for the company's North Slope winter 2006-07 exploration drilling program. That program...