Ulmer named to Gulf oil spill commission 06/20/2010
Alaska has been given a seat at the national table in preventing and mitigating offshore oil spills. Fran Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage and former lieutenant governor, has...

MMS director names science advisor 03/28/2010
The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service announced March 24 that Alan Thornhill has been named science advisor to MMS Director Liz Birnbaum. MMS said Thornhill will assist Birnbau...

Nature Conservancy passes leader's baton 05/13/2007
Former conservation director takes helm, vows to 'stay the course' in Alaska chapter of international environmental group
Randall Hagenstein, formerly state conservation director for The Nature Conservancy in Alaska, is the organization's new leader. Hagenstein, 48, replaces David Banks, who after nine years with the Con...

Oil Patch Insider 04/15/2007
Agrium takes first gas; Savant hires O'Keefe, looking for more exploration plays; Zimmerman resigns from Storm Cat
Agrium's Alaska spokeswoman Lisa Parker told Petroleum News April 11 that the company's Nikiski fertilizer facility received its first natural gas feedstock April 10 and will be back in production in...

KUPARUK ANNIVERSARY: Kuparuk Earth Energy Partners recycled 01/21/2007
Effort changes from recycling at field in the '90s to working with partners on statewide conservation projects
Earth Energy Partners was formed in the early 1990s by Kuparuk River field employees to promote recycling, says Ken Donajkowski, ConocoPhillips Alaska vice president of health, safety and environment....

MEET ALASKA 2007: Meet Alaska 2007 speakers 01/21/2007
Richard F. Guerrant Richard F. Guerrant, vice president-Americas for ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing Co., is located in Houston, Texas, and is responsible for the marketing of ExxonMobil's natural g...

Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigns 03/19/2006
Norton, former Colorado attorney general, one of architects of Bush's energy policy, led push for 'cooperative conservation'
Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigned March 10 after five years of guiding the Bush administration's initiative to open government lands in the West to more oil and gas drilling, logging, grazing an...

Nature Conservancy settles oil royalties suit in Texas 11/24/2002
Conservancy believed it had 100 percent interest, later determined others owed royalties; well had bottomhole location just a few hundred feet from tract boundary
A lawsuit brought against the Nature Conservancy of Texas by a group that claimed it was cheated out of royalties from an oil and gas well on the Texas City Prairie Preserve has been settled. In an i...

BP opens $7.1 million energy center 09/22/2002
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. held an open house Sept. 10 to herald the opening of the BP Energy Center, a new $7.1 million facility Alaska's nonprofits and education groups can use free of charge. BP...

Marathon recognized for environmental stewardship 06/16/2002
Marathon Oil Co. was one of four oil and gas companies which received the annual Chairman's Stewardship Award from the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission June 10. The award recognizes projects...

Conservation group buys 37 acres near Anchor River 12/23/2001
The Nature Conservancy has bought 37 acres near Anchor River to protect the area against encroaching development. The purchase is part of a broader project between the national environmental group an...

Phillips gives $1 million to Nature Conservancy 07/28/2000
Phillips Alaska has given a $1 million gift to the Nature Conservancy of Alaska to help launch a conservation campaign in the state. The money will go toward the Conservancy's $10 million Great Place...

Malone named BP Amoco regional president 06/28/2000
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. President and CEO/COO Bob Malone has been named BP Amoco's regional president, Western United States, Alyeska said June 14. The company said Malone will continue to be inv...