The Explorers 2010: ENI Petroleum 11/14/2010
Italian major Eni Petroleum took its first stab at Alaska in the late 1960s as Agip Petroleum, but didn't begin exploring in earnest until it bought a portfolio of North Slope leases from Armstrong Al...

Eni Petroleum gives up Rock Flour unit 07/18/2010
Italian major voluntarily terminates central North Slope unit; Escopeta, BRPC, Armstrong, FEX and others get and give up leases
Eni Petroleum voluntarily terminated the Rock Flour unit in June. According to recently released state lease reports, the Italian major relinquished the central North Slope unit, tucked between the Pr...

Partial funding for southern Kenai gas 06/13/2010
Final budget cuts $4.5 million for line to Homer, but pays for reduction units to bring gas to Anchor Point and Nikolaevsk
For decades, people in the southern Kenai Peninsula have filled their fuel tanks with heating oil as they enviously watched their neighbors in the northern end of the peninsula enjoying relatively che...

Big Risk, Bigger Rewards: Advice on coming to Alaska from Gustafson 02/14/2010
Ask the permitting agency before permitting a project; copy strategies that have already been proven successful; work with majors
Armstrong Alaska, like other companies, initially worried about Alaska, and before they came to the state, they sent 84 questions about it to Stu Gustafson. Gustafson worked with Exxon from 1979 until...

Eni onshore pipeline work on schedule 02/07/2010
Nikaitchuq developer has offshore island in place, laid 3.8-mile pipeline bundle to shore last winter; working onshore connection
After slowing the pace of its Nikaitchuq project on Alaska's North Slope last year, Eni Petroleum is on schedule for first production from the field's onshore pad this December, and for first producti...

Farm-in at North Tarn 01/24/2010
Brooks Range Petroleum to operate exploration program on Eni US lease
Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. has added another exploration prospect to its North Slope agenda. BRPC, the operating company for Alaska Venture Capital Group, has applied for operations approval for an...

The Explorers 2009: ENI Petroleum 11/15/2009
Italian major Eni Petroleum took its first stab at Alaska in the late 1960s as Agip Petroleum, but didn't begin exploring in earnest until summer 2005, when it bought a portfolio of North Slope leases...

The Explorers 2008: Armstrong's back on North Slope 11/23/2008
Denver independent returns, still bullish on ANS oil; Cook Inlet gas well looks commercial
The Denver-based independent instrumental in bringing three new oil companies to northern Alaska in less than three years is back. On Oct. 22 an Armstrong Oil and Gas affiliate accounted for 77 percen...

The Explorers 2008: Eni becomes an oil producer in 2008 11/23/2008
Italian major holds interest in Oooguruk, working to bring Nikaitchuq online, exploration on deck
Eni Petroleum shifted its focus in Alaska from exploration to development this past year. The American subsidiary of the Italian multinational sanctioned development of the Nikaitchuq unit in the Beau...

The Explorers 2008: A milestone year for Pioneer 11/23/2008
Oooguruk comes on line and Cosmopolitan advances toward development decision
In the year or so since Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources announced that it was throttling back on its Alaska exploration program to focus on its Oooguruk and Cosmopolitan projects, the company h...

Armstrong's back 10/26/2008
Denver independent has returned to northern Alaska, as bullish on oil as ever
The Denver-based independent instrumental in bringing three new oil companies to northern Alaska in less than three years is back. On Oct. 22 an Armstrong Oil and Gas affiliate accounted for 77 percen...

Cook Inlet state lease sale draws $2.2 million from five bidders 05/25/2008
The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas received 23 bids from six bidders on 18 tracts at its Cook Inlet areawide oil and gas lease sale May 21, with a total of $2,276,768.20 in apparent high bids. Once t...

Eni plans summer seismic at Nikaitchuq 05/18/2008
Italian mega-major to shoot 3-D seismic across nearly 118 square miles of state waters in Beaufort Sea starting as early as July
Hoping to learn more about the oil-bearing formations of its offshore Nikaitchuq unit, Eni Petroleum plans to shoot a 3-D seismic survey this summer in the Beaufort Sea. The survey would cover nearly...

ENI sanctions $1.45 billion Nikaitchuq development 02/03/2008
The Italian oil major Eni announced plans on Jan. 25 to spend $1.45 billion developing the Nikaitchuq oil field in the Beaufort Sea. The development plan for the field includes drilling around 73 prod...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Exploring on pause, development on go 11/18/2007
Pioneer focusing on Oooguruk development, Cosmo delineation; exploration still on hold due to disappointing results, concern about Alaska's tax regime
Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources has no immediate plans to resume its Alaska oil and gas exploration program, Timothy Dove, Pioneer's president and chief operating officer, said on Sept. 27, 200...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Eni moving forward with Nikaitchuq 11/18/2007
Beaufort Sea project sanction expected by end of 2007, first oil 2009; Maggiore, Rock Flour undergoing evaluation
The signs are good that Eni will move forward with development of its Nikaitchuq unit offshore Alaska's North Slope in 2008. On Oct. 5, 2007, the Houston-based affiliate of Italy's Eni SpA received S...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Armstrong, Total back in the game 11/18/2007
An affiliate of Denver-based Armstrong Oil and Gas and a subsidiary of Paris-based Total S.A. returned to Alaska in 2007. When independent Armstrong Alaska LLC and Houston-based major Total EandP USA In...

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...

Eni applies for North Slope Nikaitchuq camp pad 08/19/2007
Eni Petroleum has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land and Water to lease seven acres south of Oliktok Point in the Kuparuk River unit for 25 years. The tract...

Eni applies to roll Tuvaaq, other acreage, into Nikaitchuq unit 07/08/2007
Move would more than double size of offshore North Slope unit, from some 12,968 to 33,869 acres; two wells just drilled from Oliktok Point, one may be re-entered, one used as injector
As it moves toward a possible end-of-year development decision at its Nikaitchuq unit, Eni Petroleum has applied to expand the unit by merging the adjacent Tuvaaq unit and additional acreage to the so...

Oil Patch Insider 02/25/2007
PN sources say Eni buying Anadarko out of Nikaitchuq; Milan approved development after successful production test; Canada told to forget Arctic claims
Petroleum News sources said Feb. 22 that Eni has purchased Anadarko Petroleum's 70 percent interest in the Nikaitchuq prospect, making Eni 100 percent owner in the Alaska Beaufort Sea unit. State of...

Oooguruk expansion application complete 12/17/2006
Pioneer Natural Resources picked up needed leases to fill in unit, got royalty reduction, built gravel island; pipelines next
Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska has completed an application to expand its North Slope Oooguruk unit, which now includes 12 State of Alaska oil and gas leases, with an additional seven state leases....