Conoco: ULSD facility won't be built 12/02/2007
State of Alaska's tax changes blamed; Revenue Commissioner Pat Galvin says facility wouldn't have qualified under 2006 PPT
A proposed upgrade to a North Slope topping plant to produce the ultra-low-sulfur diesel required to meet federal government standards of no more than 15 parts per million of sulfur has been canceled...

MINING NEWS: Fort Knox mine to add jobs, equipment 11/25/2007
Army Corps OKs new heap leach facility; improved operations, exploration will boost yearly production and extend life of project
Between phase 7 of its exploration program, a new heap leach facility and an extended mine life, Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc. is ramping up activity to boost production more than 6,000 ounces annually a...

Mixing zones measure passes legal test for Alaska voters 11/25/2007
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell has certified an initiative that would prohibit mixing zones in water used by salmon and resident fish, setting the stage for the proposal to go before Alaska voters. Certificat...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: ConocoPhillips drops 300,000 acres 11/18/2007
Major and its independent partners focused on appraising previously announced NPR-A discoveries
ConocoPhillips Alaska's exploration program reached into far western NPR-A last winter, 2006-07. In 2007-08 the company plans to drill closer in, with proposed exploration wells - the program had not...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Mat-Su CBM gets second chance 11/18/2007
Fowler Oil and Gas gets unanimous approval from Matanuska-Susitna Borough to drill coalbed methane well; first okayed under tough new ordinance
When Fowler Oil and Gas Corp. first came on the scene in May 2007, it had been four years since an attempt to develop coalbed methane resources in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough collapsed amid an ac...