Swenson named in-state gas line manager 01/03/2010
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has named Bob Swenson of Fairbanks to replace Harry Noah as the state's in-state gas line project manager. Noah announced his resignation earlier this year, citing the demands...

Plenty of gas 12/27/2009
DNR assessment points to more than a decade of Cook Inlet gas reserves
In the light of widespread concern about the capacity of Alaska's Cook Inlet gas fields to continue to supply sufficient natural gas to meet the needs of local gas and power utilities, the Alaska Depa...

DGGS publishes CI research findings 12/13/2009
Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys has published the preliminary results of it 2006-07 research into the geology of the Homer and Kachemak Bay area of Alaska's Cook Inlet. The pri...

The Explorers 2009: Interior Alaska basins 11/15/2009
Although analysts think that the majority of Alaska's oil and gas resources lie within the major basins of northern Alaska, Cook Inlet and the Bristol Bay area, there are several other basins around t...

The Explorers 2009: Cook Inlet basin 11/15/2009
Cook Inlet, a major sea inlet between the Kenai Peninsula and the mainland of Southcentral Alaska, lies over part of a deep sedimentary basin that has formed between the Kenai Mountains and the mounta...

The Explorers 2009: Alaska Peninsula and North Aleutian basin 11/15/2009
The North Aleutian basin, also known as the Bristol Bay basin, extends more than 200 miles along the north side of the Alaska Peninsula and out into the southern Bering Sea shelf. The southeastern por...

Renewable energy investments recommended 11/08/2009
Draft report from Senate Resources, Energy committees also recommended 'staying the course' on AGIA state-supported gas project
The draft of a report on the state's energy situation, released Oct. 19 by members of the Alaska Senate energy policy group, provides a wide-ranging look at proposals from energy-efficient buildings t...

Clues for oil and gas on peninsula 05/31/2009
DNR and DOG geologists overview the results of four years of intense research into the petroleum geology of the Alaska Peninsula
Its geology seems tantalizingly similar to that of the oil and gas-endowed Cook Inlet; oil seeps attracted early Alaska oil and gas exploration to its huge geologic structures; but never a drop of com...

DGGS schedules ROW geology meeting 04/26/2009
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys invites organizations involved in natural gas pipeline corridor issues to a meeting on geological data acquir...

Oil Patch Insider 02/22/2009
AGIA coordinator Myers shares thoughts on gas line; Obama, Harper taking the high-tech route
As previously reported in Petroleum News, on Jan. 21, Gov. Sarah Palin named Mark Myers coordinator for the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. In a recent interview with Petroleum News, Myers answered th...

What options for Alaska geothermal? 02/08/2009
The state has geothermal resources, but viable development needs the right geology in the right place, and favorable economics
The existence of many volcanoes and some hot springs in Alaska offers tantalizing possibilities for generating heat or electrical power from energy upwelling from deep inside the Earth. So, what is th...

Mark Myers returns to state government 01/25/2009
Mark Myers, former director of the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, is returning to Alaska. Gov. Sarah Palin announced Jan. 21 that Myers has been named coordinator for the Alaska Gasline Inducement A...

40 Years at Prudhoe Bay: A geologist finds the right words 11/16/2008
Young co-leader of 1963 summer field party stirs ambitions of California major to find the elephant lurking on the North Slope
Gar Pessel's introduction to Alaska had nothing to do with oil. The Richfield Oil Co. geologist, who wrote a letter that set in motion a chain of events leading to the discovery of the Prudhoe Bay oil...

Looking for geologic links on North Slope 10/12/2008
DGGS-led team is finding evidence of how the geology and petroleum systems in different parts of the North Slope hook together
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone that Alaska's North Slope holds some world class petroleum systems in its subsurface geology. But, as oil and gas exploration moves away from the Prud...

Going underground on the North Slope 05/04/2008
DGGS-led program links foothills surface geology with subsurface well, seismic data; North Slope exploration still in 'primary phase'
There has been a view on Alaska's North Slope that oil exploration too far south of the Beaufort Sea coast is a futile operation. Go south of a so-called "line of death" somewhere along the middle of...

DGGS issues proposals for '08 research 04/06/2008
Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys has issued proposals for 2008 geologic research on the North Slope and in the Cook Inlet area. DGGS is seeking sponsors to help fund programs, t...

Mapping Alaska gas line 01/20/2008
Geologists look for geologic hazards, surface materials along Alaska Highway route
As a follow-up to a 2006 airborne geophysical survey of the Alaska Highway corridor, a team of 10 to 12 geologists from Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys spent approximately a mo...

Wainwright test well finds gas 11/04/2007
Coalbed methane resource could provide long-term power for the Alaska village if extraction proves economically feasible
A multi-year U.S. Department of the Interior Alaska Rural Energy Project which has been searching for coalbed methane near rural Alaska villages hit pay dirt in June and July when a test well at the C...

State plans Mount Spurr lease sale 09/02/2007
Call for applications for geothermal exploration rights attracts enough interest for competitive lease sale, probably in January
An escalating interest in renewable energy sources, driven no doubt by high oil prices and concerns about climate change, seems to have encouraged some significant interest in developing possible geot...

MINING NEWS: Rail link would transport Yukon iron ore 07/29/2007
Alaska-Canada rail link could benefit dozens of mining projects, but which comes first - resource development or infrastructure?
Proponents of an Alaska-Canada rail link are thinking big. In a phase 1 feasibility study commissioned by the State of Alaska and the Yukon government and published in June, they estimate that the pro...

Touring the North Slope 07/29/2007
Myers, Houseknecht, Mull join in show and tell with industry, state, federal geologists
The annual North Slope show-and-tell tour, organized by Alaska's Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, has become something of an institution among North Slope geologists. And this year's to...

Tapping into Alaska's volcanoes 05/13/2007
Alaska's geothermal lease offerings reflect interest in harnessing underground heat, want applications next to Augustine, Mt. Spurr
Living next to a volcano might not fit into everyone's comfort zone. But, as most Icelanders would probably testify, it's a situation that can keep down the energy bills. In the right situation, geot...

Testing for shallow gas at Wainwright 03/18/2007
Well to be drilled in the early summer will test for gas in coal seams under the Chukchi coast village
After a pause of a couple of years, the project to test the potential to use coalbed natural gas as an energy source in rural Alaska is under way again, this time in Wainwright on the Chukchi Sea coas...

MEET ALASKA 2007: Envisioning Alaska's oil and gas future 01/21/2007
Kevin Banks says division will pursue petroleum development in state, while keeping close tabs on industry's obligations
Petroleum News: What is the direction in which you see the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas heading? Kevin Banks: If I had to come up with a slogan, it would be, "oil and gas development on our terms."...