Oil rises to near $82 amid mixed signs 11/28/2010
Oil prices rose slightly to near $82 a barrel Nov. 24 in Asia as an upward revision of U.S. economic growth and a report showing an unexpected jump in crude inventories provided mixed signals on deman...

US sets new offshore drilling rules 10/10/2010
The United States on Sept. 30 imposed new rules to make offshore drilling safer, but said it was not yet ready to lift a temporary ban on deepwater drilling. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called off...

GOP joins with three Dems to save tax break 09/19/2010
On Sept. 14, 39 Republicans in the U.S. Senate and three Democrats blocked a proposal that would have prevented the country's largest oil companies from taking a popular domestic manufacturing tax ded...

Arctic Directory: Unique Machine receives accreditations 03/21/2010
Unique Machine LLC said Dec. 11 that the American Petroleum Institute, after completing a full review of Unique Machine's quality programs, has granted API Monogram License No. 5CT-1163 and API Monogr...

Oil Patch Bits: Unique Machine receives accreditations 12/20/2009
Unique Machine LLC said Dec. 11 that the American Petroleum Institute, after completing a full review of Unique Machine's quality programs, has granted API Monogram License No. 5CT-1163 and API Monogr...

Exxon seeks new life 12/20/2009
Bets heavily on unconventional gas as fuel of choice by 2030 in takeover of XTO
The tipoff was there for anyone caring to pay attention when ExxonMobil declared on Dec. 8 that natural gas would be the fuel of choice in the United States by 2030, shunting aside coal and oil. Less...

Wins and losses for sands sector 11/01/2009
Industry gets boost from study estimating employment, economic spinoffs; runs afoul of chemical producers, who demand single standard
The Alberta oil sands, as is so often the case, are being pulled in opposite directions, quietly ramping up production, while unease builds as the sector awaits greenhouse gas regulations from the Oba...

Pioneer gets multiple Oooguruk approvals 08/23/2009
Participating areas, multiphase meters approved; development drilling continues; WAG in Nuiqsut, waterflood in Kuparuk planned
Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska received multiple regulatory approvals for its Oooguruk field off Alaska's North Slope north of Kuparuk in late July. The field, which began producing last summer, rep...

Court says only Alaska on hold in proceeding against OCS sales 08/02/2009
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has responded to a May 11 request by the U.S. Department of the Interior for clarification of the ramifications of an April 17 court ord...

State intervenes in case 07/26/2009
AG: Appeal against Chukchi Sea lease sale could have major impact in Alaska
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska has allowed the State of Alaska to intervene in an appeal by the Native village of Point Hope, the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope a...

BP in Alaska: Moving the oil – pipeline challenges 07/12/2009
Designing a pipeline that would transport Prudhoe Bay oil from Alaska's northern coast to its ice-free port of Valdez on Alaska's southern coast was an unprecedented engineering challenge. Three basic...

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...

Private sector lead sought for propane 06/21/2009
ANGDA hosts Alaska Opportunities Conference; state corporation looking for companies to process, transport, buy propane
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority has reached a tentative agreement with a major North Slope producer for the sale of propane and is seeking private parties to help distribute the fuel acro...

Biofuels - rethinking, reshaping, restarting; 5% ethanol considered 05/31/2009
Canada to copy US approach, shrugging off questions about indirect GHG emissions from grain-based fuels, shake-out in US sector; renewable fuels standard yet to be established
The Canadian government is falling into line with the United States as it plans a sharp hike in the use of grain-based ethanol in transportation fuels, ignoring the growing concerns over the greenhous...