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...

Cook Inlet beluga whale count up in 2010 10/17/2010
NMFS annual survey counts 19 more animals than in 2009 but agency says population trend heading downward, perhaps to extinction
Last year it was 321 and this year it's 340. But despite this small apparent increase in the Cook Inlet beluga whale population, announced by the National Marine Fisheries Service on Oct. 8, a vigorou...

Ion gets permit for Beaufort Sea seismic 09/26/2010
BOEMRE has issued a permit for an early winter 2-D seismic survey in the Beaufort Sea; Ion will use new under-ice technique
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has issued a geological and geophysical permit to Ion Geophysical for a 2-D seismic survey along the entire length of the Alaska...

Statoil survey fleet heads for Chukchi 08/15/2010
District court judge clarifies Chukchi Sea injunction and agencies issue remaining permits in time for 2010 open water season
On Aug. 6, after a nail-biting few days waiting for clarification of a court injunction, Statoil finally received the last of the permits for its 2010 seismic survey program in Alaska's Chukchi Sea. T...