The Explorers 2010: Alaska: A brave new world for explorers, producers 11/14/2010
A review of federal policy assaults on Alaska's economy and ramifications for oil and gas exploration and production
Shakespeare coined a phrase for Miranda in Act V of "The Tempest," when he wrote of a brave new world filled with good people. By Aldus Huxley's time other authors had used the term-mostly in positiv...

Arctic Directory: Doyon board members elected at meeting 09/19/2010
Doyon Ltd said March 19 that at the annual meeting of shareholders four individuals were selected to Doyon's 13-member board of directors. Elected were Miranda Wright, Teisha Simmons, Cheryl Northway-...

Obama appoints new MMS director 06/20/2010
The president wants to see 'far-reaching change' in the agency that oversees oil development on the U.S. outer continental shelf
On June 15 President Obama announced the appointment of Michael Bromwich as the new director of the U.S. Minerals Management Service. And the president left no doubt about the reasoning behind his cho...

Oil Patch Bits: Doyon board members elected at annual meeting 03/28/2010
Doyon Ltd said March 19 that at the annual meeting of shareholders four individuals were selected to Doyon's 13-member board of directors. Elected were Miranda Wright, Teisha Simmons, Cheryl Northway-...

Tossing free trade carries risks 03/21/2010
NAFTA protects energy flow from Canada to Lower 48; Deutsche Bank study highlights political, economic advantages of open border
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is seeking backing for a bill to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement, and with it guarantees of U.S. access to a share of Canada's oil and natural gas pr...

Mining News: Optimism surges among Alaska miners 11/22/2009
As metals prices climb and world demand resumes upward trend, mineral industry prepares for period of robust activity in 2010
Metals markets continue to climb out of the basement as the world demand for metals resumes its upward trend. Fueled by this growing demand, numerous Alaska precious, base and rare metal projects repo...

Oil Patch Insider: Canada takes delivery of two Arctic submarines 10/04/2009
The Canadian government has taken delivery of two remote-controlled submarines that will be used in mapping the Arctic seabed. The program's purpose is to document Canada's territorial claims in the A...

OPEC leaves crude oil targets unchanged 09/13/2009
OPEC on Sept. 10 decided to leave its production quotas unchanged, opting to take a cautious approach in a market awash in crude and a global economy still in the early stages of recovery. The 12-nati...

Oil sands improve showing 08/02/2009
Study shows direct greenhouse gas emissions from production, transport and refining are comparable to U.S. heavy crudes
Alberta is cleaning up its act to the point where direct emissions from the extraction, shipping and refining of oil sands output is roughly parallel to that of other crudes refined in the United Stat...

BP in Alaska: BP's early history 07/12/2009
Company's origins go back 100 years
The first commercial oil discovery in the Middle East in 1908 brought about the birth of British Petroleum a year later, and it quickly grew into one of the world's largest oil companies. In the year...

BP in Alaska: Bidding around the edges 07/12/2009
BP attains strong lease position, waits on neighbors, drills to confirm Prudhoe discovery
In 1964 the first state land at Prudhoe Bay was put up for auction. By that time, other oil companies were beginning to take more interest in BP's lonely quest. Disheartened by the failures in the Br...

BP in Alaska: North to Alaska 07/12/2009
BP's trail to Prudhoe Bay: Opened office in 1959, geologists arrived in 1960
Alaska was first mentioned within BP in a 1952 world survey of oil prospects compiled by the company's exploration department in London. The north of Alaska was included because of oil and gas discove...

Mining News: 'Pay Dirt!' discovered in 'Gold' exhibit 06/28/2009
Companion exhibits at Anchorage Museum explore man's captivation with gold, and the gold rushes that opened the Alaska frontier
A stroll through the "Gold" exhibit at the Anchorage Museum of Art and History can transport visitors through six millennia of man's captivation with the brilliant metal. The journey explores the uniq...

Oil rises above $70 on government report 06/28/2009
Oil prices jumped above $70 a barrel June 25 after the government said that the economy may be faring better than previously thought. In a revised reading on gross domestic product in the first quarte...