FERC staff offer example 01/17/2010
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff members from the Office of Energy Projects Division of Pipeline Certificates were in Anchorage Jan. 12 for a workshop on the open season process for Alaska....

Oil Patch Bits: Air Liquide to double its production capacity 01/17/2010
Air Liquide said Jan. 4 that it has begun building a new production unit in Anchorage to double its liquid oxygen and nitrogen capacity in Alaska. Air Liquide has been a leading provider of industrial...

Greening of Oil magazine launches 01/17/2010
Anchorage-based Petroleum News has launched a new, international online magazine at www.greeningofoil.com. Greening of Oil is a science-based publication that tracks the environmental footprint of fos...

Alyeska plans pipeline bullet-hole drill 01/17/2010
Exercise will involve field testing hydraulic clamp designed to quickly seal high-pressure oil leak; 2001 shooting caused big spill
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is planning a field exercise this year to test a hydraulically powered clamp designed to stop oil squirting out of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline through a bullet hole. The...

Climate policy implications for Alaska 01/17/2010
The implications of emerging national and international climate policy for Alaskans will be presented by Dr. Matthew Berman of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the Anchorage Chapter o...

Point Thomson EIS public meetings set 01/17/2010
Five public meetings have been set on the Point Thomson project environmental impact statement. The proposed project is an oil and natural gas condensate extraction operation at Point Thomson on the N...

Denali sets open season date 01/17/2010
Will submit package to FERC in April, conduct 90-day OS beginning in July
Both Alaska natural gas pipeline projects have now set dates for their open seasons, the quest for customers to commit to filling a proposed line with natural gas. Denali, a joint venture of BP and C...

Oil Patch Bits: Stoel Rives expands corporate services in Alaska 01/10/2010
Stoel Rives LLP said Dec. 14 that corporate attorneys William H. Timme and John D. Kauffman have joined the firm's Anchorage office. Timme has spent more than 35 years counseling mostly Alaska Native...

Anchorage to assess Beluga whale listing 01/10/2010
The Municipality of Anchorage has hired attorney William Stelle of law firm KandL Gates LLP to coordinate the municipality's response to the National Marine Fisheries Service designation of critical hab...

Time to take a stand on climate change? 01/10/2010
Alaska legislators want information to determine a strategy on responding to climate change actions and the use of the ESA in AK
The stakes are high and the rhetoric climbing in the debate between those who want to apply the Endangered Species Act for the protection of wildlife potentially threatened by a warming climate, and t...

FERC sets Alaska open season workshop 01/10/2010
Staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hold an open season pre-filing workshop at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage Jan. 12 from 1-5 p.m. FERC said the workshop wi...

Exxon's legal extra 01/10/2010
Just ahead of Point Thomson ruling, firm touts drilling progress; state objects
With a judge on the brink of issuing a key ruling in the battle for control of the rich Point Thomson oil and gas field, ExxonMobil has filed a last-minute statement from its Alaska chief in hopes of...

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...

Oil Patch Bits: Crowley ATB is largest to transit Alaska waters 01/03/2010
Crowley Maritime Corp. said Dec. 15 that its petroleum transportation group recently made history, as its 155,000-barrel Articulated Tug Barge, Sea Reliance/550-1, became the largest of its kind to ha...

State Beaufort Sea sale set for Feb. 24 12/27/2009
The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas said Dec. 20 that it will hold a Beaufort Sea areawide oil and gas lease sale Feb. 24. Bid opening will begin at 9 a.m. in Suite 240 at the Atwood Building, 550 W. 7...

Oil Patch Bits: Alaska Frontier Constructors receives certificates 12/27/2009
Alaska Frontier Constructors Inc. said Dec. 15 that it, along with Nanuq Inc. of Anchorage and Prudhoe Bay have achieved an ISO 14001 Environmental Management System certificate, an AHSAS 18001 Health...

Oil Patch Bits: Crowley names Tessier VP of sales, chartering 12/27/2009
Crowley Maritime Corp. said Dec. 9 that Dorine Tessier has been named vice president of sales and chartering for its petroleum transportation group. In her new role, she will report to John Douglass,...

Cook Inlet recovery act 12/27/2009
Alaska state Reps. Mike Hawker, R-Anchorage, and Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, said Dec. 22 that they will introduce legislation promoting Cook Inlet natural gas exploration, production, storage and deliv...

Energy Committee lays out draft bills 12/27/2009
Policy bill includes energy efficiency; omnibus bill includes Energy Department to give cabinet-level focus to Alaska energy issues
The Alaska House Special Committee on Energy is preparing two bills for introduction in next year's session of the Legislature: a state energy policy bill and an energy omnibus bill which incorporates...

Lawyers debate BP motion 12/27/2009
Company fights Alaska's billion-dollar suit over '06 Prudhoe Bay pipeline leaks
A lawyer for BP on Dec. 21 urged a judge to dismiss much of the State of Alaska's lawsuit against the company seeking $1 billion or more in damages for the 2006 pipeline spills in the Prudhoe Bay oil...

Power from the North Slope by HVDC? 12/20/2009
State-of-the-art high-voltage direct current, or HVDC, technology is changing the rule book for long-distance power transmission, thus perhaps making feasible the export of large-scale power supplies...

Mining News: Pebble bobs to, fro on waves of opinion 12/20/2009
Fisheries board rejects plan to establish Bristol Bay fish refuge; Native corporations differ sharply on mining project's impact
The Pebble Partnership, a 50-50 joint venture between Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and Anglo American plc, can chalk up one win and one potential loss toward the development of a mine at its copper-...

Mining News: Interior property shows huge potential 12/20/2009
Junior cuts 400 meters of gold mineralization during 2009 exploration program aimed at seeking prospects beyond Whistler zone
Kiska Metals Corp. cut long intercepts of gold-rich mineralization in two of the five holes that it drilled during the newly formed company's fall 2009 exploration program. These intercepts indicate t...

Fire damages FNG Port Mackenzie plant 12/20/2009
A fire ripped through a maintenance shop adjacent the Fairbanks Natural Gas LNG plant at Port MacKenzie, north of Anchorage, early in the morning of Dec. 17. The cause of the fire has yet to be determ...

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...