THE EXPLORERS 2007: Escopeta, Renaissance hunt for jack-up 11/18/2007
Escopeta Oil has led the effort to bring a mobile offshore drilling unit into Cook Inlet, the body of water in Southcentral Alaska that lies over part of the Cook Inlet oil and gas basin. That hunt ha...

Escopeta's North Alexander well in ACMP review 11/04/2007
Escopeta Oil Co. LLC's North Alexander prospect gas exploration well is under review for consistency with the Alaska Coastal Management Program. Escopeta is proposing to drill the North Alexander No....

Pioneer begins drilling at Cosmopolitan 09/16/2007
Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska has begun drilling its offshore Cosmopolitan appraisal well from private land on a bluff overlooking Cook Inlet, about a quarter mile from Stariski Creek off the south...

Oil Patch Insider 09/09/2007
Shell tries to help Cook Inlet explorers Renaissance, Escopeta
Over the past few months independents Renaissance Alaska and Escopeta Oil have been talking to Shell about using one of the major's Beaufort Sea drilling units for offshore wells in Alaska's Cook Inle...

Oil Patch Insider 08/19/2007
Renaissance plans to bring jack-up to Cook Inlet next summer
A Cook Inlet independent hopes to bring a jack-up to Cook Inlet next summer. In an Aug. 14 interview with Petroleum News, Renaissance Alaska LLC executive Mark Landt said his company has bids from two...

Cook Inlet sale draws bids over wide area 06/03/2007
Donkel-Cade bids widespread; Marathon, Renaissance, Aurora fill in around existing properties; newcomer Nordik takes four tracts
Seven bidders, six successful, participated in the $3.3 million Cook Inlet areawide oil and gas lease sale held by the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas May 23: Aurora Gas LLC; Daniel K. Donkel (25 perce...

Forest sells Alaska assets 06/03/2007
California independent Pacific Energy says Cook Inlet will be core area
On May 29, Denver-based Forest Oil announced the sale of its remaining Alaska assets to Pacific Energy Resources for approximately $464 million. Pacific Energy, a new player in the state, told Petrole...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: What's cooking in the 'kitchens?' 04/08/2007
Two offshore Cook Inlet prospects that Escopeta Oil plans to explore laid groundwork for their unusual names millions of years ago
In exploring Cook Inlet, Escopeta Oil geologists gained their inspiration for naming two offshore oil and gas prospects that they hope to explore this year. The prospects, Kitchen and East Kitchen, a...

Looking for Cook Inlet hydrocarbon kitchen 04/01/2007
Former Mobil Oil geologist Frank Banar explains how Escopeta's Kitchen prospects may contain large quantities of gas and light oil
Only a drill bit is going to determine how much oil and gas lies deep beneath Alaska's upper Cook Inlet in Escopeta Oil and Gas's Kitchen prospects. But a multi-year effort by Escopeta to bring a jack...

Cook Inlet units get OK 02/04/2007
State OKs Forest's Corsair unit, Escopeta's Kitchen, North Alexander units
The State of Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas said Jan. 31 it has approved three Cook Inlet basin units that were applied for by operators Forest Oil and Escopeta Oil. Two of the approved units, the C...

Three inlet units in works 12/24/2006
Escopeta, Forest tell State of Alaska they'll drill offshore, onshore in Cook Inlet
Escopeta Oil Co. and Forest Oil Corp. have both applied to form units in the Cook Inlet basin - and the wells proposed for two of those units will require bringing a jack-up rig to Cook Inlet. The Al...

Escopeta seeks more jack-up partners 12/10/2006
Initial public offering on London Stock Exchange fails to raise sufficient funds to bring rig to Cook Inlet for drilling program; have $15 million but need more to drill Kitchen prospects
Escopeta Oil is seeking additional partners to bring a jack-up exploration rig to Cook Inlet, after Centurion Gold Holdings Inc. withdrew its initial public offering of shares to fund the use of the r...

THE EXPLORERS 2006 - Escopeta prepares to drill Alexander 11/12/2006
Company cleared major hurdles in 2006, including Jones Act waiver to bring jack-up rig to Cook Inlet
Escopeta Oil's had a pretty good year in Alaska. A year ago, Escopeta President Danny Davis announced the Houston independent had secured a partner willing to take majority ownership in its 130,000 a...

THE EXPLORERS 2006 - Welcome to The Explorers 2006 11/12/2006
The 2006-07 winter drilling season north of the Brooks Range in Alaska promises to be the busiest in at least a decade. Thirteen exploration wells are scheduled to be drilled - and possibly as many as...

Oil Patch Insider 11/12/2006
Escopeta reschedules drilling; Shell downgrade gets downplayed; Agrium to reopen in March
Escopeta Oil said Nov. 8 that the company is still working to bring a jack-up rig to Alaska's Cook Inlet to drill its Kitchen prospects, but that the sailing date has been delayed from late 2006 to Ap...

Oil Patch Insider 10/22/2006
Agrium plant shutdown likely; Escopeta has good, not-so-good news; Mac gas line report out, Mazzolini leaves Conoco for FEX
They say three times is the charm. Let's hope so. We think we've got it right this time. A couple of weeks ago an Agrium contractor told Petroleum News the company's Kenai Peninsula nitrogen facility...

Popp bullish on the inlet 09/10/2006
Kenai Peninsula Borough official sees increasing interest in Cook Inlet exploration; possibility of deep drilling signals $300-$500 million more in capital investment over the next four years
Dwindling oil reserves in the Cook Inlet oil fields, the Agrium fertilizer plant at Nikiski under threat of closure and uncertainty about the future of the Nikiski LNG plant don't seem to add up to a...

Platform regs draw fire 08/13/2006
Independents say proposed bonding would kill their Cook Inlet exploration
Small independent companies planning offshore exploration in Cook Inlet are screaming in protest at a bonding requirement that the State of Alaska is proposing as part of new regulations governing the...

DEC moves on Escopeta's air quality permit to use jack-up to drill Inlet wells 08/06/2006
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has announced its intention of issuing an air quality permit to Escopeta Oil and Gas Corp. for the operation of a jack-up drilling rig in four offsh...