State issues RFP for Umiat EIS 10/10/2010
DOTandPF plans to spend at least $1 million on three-year environmental document crucial for construction major roadway project
On the heels of a budgetary boost this spring, the State of Alaska is now looking for a company to put together an environment impact statement for a proposed road to Umiat. The Alaska Department of T...

Road drives Umiat plans 10/03/2010
Renaissance asks BLM to include Umiat road, project in upcoming NPR-A IAP
Renaissance Alaska believes modern technology can overcome almost all of the obstacles facing development of the Umiat prospect in the foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range. But for one large obstacle, t...

Budget funds road studies 06/13/2010
Roads to Resources program gets $13 million to prepare impact statements for 2 roads, to Umiat and Nome, and to make geologic models of the Foothills
After several years of activity in the foothills of the Brooks Range, the past six months have been rather quiet for exploration, but somewhat active for promoting infrastructure. The fiscal year 2011...

Oil Patch Insider 05/17/2009
Alberta cleans up royalty house; Alyeska wins operator award; JPO moving; Foothills road studies this summer
Whatever Alberta's oil and gas producers think of the province's new royalty scheme - and the displeasure is close to universal - Alberta Auditor-General Fred Dunn isn't about to give them a break. Fo...

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...

Slope road plans evolve 12/18/2005
DOT has initiated Bullen Point planning, design; looking at foothills access options
The State of Alaska has been pushing ahead with plans for a Bullen Point Road to connect the road system at Prudhoe Bay with the oil and gas prospects near Point Thomson, towards the eastern end of th...

Alaska Legislature supports incentives 05/29/2005
Exploration incentives, Arctic Power funding, AOGCC class I disposal primacy, oil spill exemptions for gas wells get approval in Juneau
The 2005 running of the Alaska Legislature had one notable no-show - a fiscal contract for an Alaska natural gas project - and a number of highly touted oil and gas entries, but it was solid workhorse...

Governor wants roads to rev up economy in '05 12/12/2004
Murkowski's package includes roads to Point Thomson and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; extended North Slope drilling season; exploration incentives for Bristol Bay areawide sale lessees; and $30 million for gas pipeline work
Gov. Frank H. Murkowski's aggressive plans to rev up resource development in 2005 may encounter opposition in the Alaska Legislature on both sides of the aisle unless he is careful to craft fiscally a...

North Slope exploration under way: State authorizes tundra travel Jan. 10; five rigs to drill exploration wells 01/28/2001
Phillips has ice road construction under way from Kuparuk and Nuiqsut; BP is building offshore ice road to NPR-A
Five rigs will be drilling exploration wells on the North Slope this winter season, and with the tundra opened for travel Jan. 10, the season is officially under way. Leon Lynch of the state Division...