Savant completes ice road to Badami 01/10/2010
Savant Alaska has completed its 27.5-mile ice road from the eastern end of the North Slope road system to the Badami field, in preparation for the company's winter drilling program at Badami, Savant e...

December production down from November 01/10/2010
Alaska North Slope production drops 1.6%, month to month; Endicott, Milne, Alpine, Prudhoe Bay all have reduced volumes
Alaska North Slope crude oil production dropped 1.56 percent in December, averaging 688,765 barrels per day compared to the November average of 699,675 bpd. ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at...

State, feds investigate spill at North Slope's Lisburne field 12/27/2009
Ruptured pipe in BP-operated field releases estimated 45,828 gallons of oil and water; criminal and civil probes under way by Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, US EPA
State and federal authorities confirm they're conducting criminal and civil investigations into a pipeline rupture discovered in the BP-operated Lisburne oil field on Nov. 29. Weld Royal, spokeswoman...

Savant ahead of schedule 12/20/2009
Vigil: ACES works for small explorers, producers; hires lobbyist to make sure Alaska legislators aware of independent's position
Savant Alaska is ahead of schedule on the construction of its ice road to the eastern North Slope's Badami unit, where the company plans to finish an oil exploration well it began last winter. The wel...

ANS November production up from October 12/06/2009
Alaska North Slope crude oil production for November averaged 699,675 barrels per day, up 2 percent from an October average of 686,126 bpd. ANS crude oil production peaked in 1988 at some 2 million bp...

The Explorers 2009: BP Exploration (Alaska) 11/15/2009
BP Exploration opened its first office in Alaska in 1959, and drilled a confirmation well for the Prudhoe Bay discovery a decade later. Today it operates the unit and its participating areas and satel...

The Explorers 2009: Northern Alaska and Arctic offshore 11/15/2009
In 1968 the discovery of the giant Prudhoe Bay field, the first field to be discovered on Alaska's North Slope and among the 20 largest oil fields ever discovered worldwide, triggered a northern Alask...

ANS production back up from September 11/15/2009
Alaska North Slope production averaged 686,126 barrels per day in October, an increase of 1.4 percent from a September average of 676,664 bpd, according to data from the Alaska Department of Revenue's...

Parker Drilling building 2 North Slope rigs for BP 11/08/2009
In reporting its third-quarter earnings Nov. 3, Parker Drilling said it has two Arctic land rigs under construction and scheduled for "2010 deployment to the North Slope to begin drilling on five-year...

Alaska oil jobs peak 11/01/2009
Field maintenance, new projects buoy payrolls; BP ignites competition for people
Employment in Alaska's oil patch is softening, but only very slightly as the industry continues to support near record payrolls. "I'm surprised at the strength of the numbers," state labor economist N...

Endicott ROW amended to actual 10/18/2009
The Alaska State Pipeline Coordinator's Office has issued a proposed amendment to the right-of-way lease for the Endicott Pipeline on the North Slope, adding 1.18 acres of state land to the right of w...

September North Slope production up 18% 10/11/2009
BP completes planned turnarounds for year with work at Northstar, where production returned to average rates in early October
September Alaska North Slope production averaged 676,664 barrels per day, up 18 percent from an August average of 572,967 bpd. The BP Exploration (Alaska)-operated Northstar field averaged 9,474 bpd...

Alaska, BP sign $1.7 million settlement 09/27/2009
State pollution regulators said company failed to provide adequate spill containment around some North Slope holding tanks
BP has paid the State of Alaska more than $1.7 million in penalties to settle oil spill containment violations at the Prudhoe Bay, Endicott and Badami oil fields. The violations generally focused on u...

Arctic Directory: Delta, a diverse group of passionate, forward thinking individuals who know Alaska's challenges and opportunities 09/20/2009
Get to know Delta; it's a superb team of people who care about their families, employees, and clients
Q. What do you most want people to know about your company? A. That we are a company that has emerged to become a fast moving, problem solving leasing company throughout Alaska. We provide customiz...

Arctic Directory: Builders Choice Inc., an Alaska manufacturer getting tough jobs done on time 09/20/2009
High quality, lower cost solutions; BCI comes through for oil, gas, mining, and general contractors
Q. What do you most want people to know about your company? A. We are an all Alaska Company dedicated to promoting Alaska jobs and vendors as we construct modular buildings and engineered building...

August production holds level with July 09/06/2009
Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 572,967 barrels per day in August, an increase of 4,179 bpd or 0.73 percent from the July average of 568,788 bpd. The largest increase, more than 332...

Big money going offshore 08/16/2009
With oil and gas employment in Alaska at an all-time high for the fourth year in a row, crude prices bumping $70 per barrel, four northern Alaska oil fields under development, and the world's majors l...

Maintenance continues production impact 08/09/2009
July North Slope production averages 568,788 bpd, down 3.9 percent from June's 591,666 bpd; Cook Inlet barrels up marginally
Summer maintenance work on the North Slope continued to impact production rates in July, with production averaging 568,788 barrels per day, down 3.87 percent from a June average production level of 59...

Savant aims to finish Badami well 08/09/2009
Denver independent also hopes to drill sidetrack this winter as part of BP farmout agreement
Savant Alaska will resume drilling this winter in the difficult Badami unit on Alaska's North Slope, the company's general manager confirmed. Deteriorating weather conditions cut short the last winter...

Barges deliver monster Liberty rig early 08/02/2009
Barges hauling an enormous new drilling rig for BP's ultraextended-reach Liberty project in the Beaufort Sea arrived well ahead of schedule. Both barges were off Endicott Island, where the Liberty dri...

BP in Alaska: Alaska heavy oil test yields positive results 07/12/2009
A heavy oil production test program on the North Slope in August-September 2008 was an important step toward extracting vast deposits of heavy oil that lie above established fields such as Milne Point...

BP in Alaska: 50 more years in Alaska... 07/12/2009
BP Alaska is planning a 50-year future and is continuing on an ambitious course of renewal that could rival everything it has achieved to date. "Looking forward, our priorities are safe, reliable and...

BP in Alaska: Endicott poses environmental challenges 07/12/2009
Endicott's environmental challenges proved to be as great or greater than engineering and construction hurdles. Located offshore, its proximity to fish and wildlife habitat resulted in substantial env...

BP in Alaska: Offshore challenges - Endicott, Northstar, Liberty 07/12/2009
Following Prudhoe and Kuparuk, Endicott was the third major oil field developed on the North Slope by BP, the field's major interest owner. The Sag Delta discovery, 10 miles northeast of Prudhoe Bay a...

BP in Alaska: After startup – a new era for Alaska 07/12/2009
By mid-1977, when the pipeline tapped into the waiting Prudhoe Bay production, some 125 wells had been completed - about 65 by BP/Sohio and another 60 by ARCO and Exxon. With an average expected outpu...