THE EXPLORERS 2007: Small independents in high gear 11/18/2007
Five small EandP gas companies plan to drill exploration wells on Alaska's North Slope winter 2007-08
Five small independent oil and gas companies expect to drill exploration wells on Alaska's North Slope in the winter exploration season of 2007-08. In the past, the highest number of small independent...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Alaska gets $2 million from lease sales 11/18/2007
An Alaska investor group and a new company dominated the State of Alaska's annual North Slope and Beaufort Sea areawide lease sales. When bids were read Oct. 24 in Anchorage by Acting Director of the...

Seven drilling ANS exploration wells 11/18/2007
Gas target of two Anadarko's wells; four small independents to drill; Chevron starts multi-year exploratory program in Foothills
Seven oil and gas companies plan to drill exploration wells on Alaska's North Slope this winter; an eighth company is moving forward with plans to re-enter an old exploration well on an undeveloped pr...

BRPC to drill 3-4 wells on three prospects, North Shore development possible 10/28/2007
In testimony to the Alaska Legislature on Oct. 22, Alaska Venture Capital Group Managing Director Ken Thompson said AVCG and its joint venture partners in Brooks Range Petroleum Corporation Group are...

Small independent on board with ACES 10/28/2007
Thompson: ACES train has left station, AVCG wants five things to remain in Palin's bill, four to be changed, favors 22.5% rate
By mid-2008 Alaska Venture Capital Group and its partners will have invested more than $100 million in their oil and gas properties in Alaska, including drilling two exploration wells last winter, one...

Alaska gets $2M in bids 10/28/2007
Bidders at Beaufort, North Slope sales fill in around prospects, only 2 big bidders
An Alaska investor group and a new company dominated the State of Alaska's annual North Slope and Beaufort Sea areawide lease sales. When bids were read in Anchorage Oct. 24 by Acting Director of the...

BRPC permits Tofkat exploration prospect 10/07/2007
One to two wells planned this winter at exploration prospect northeast of Nuiqsut; access will be off of winter ice road to Alpine
Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. has submitted a lease plan of operations for its Tofkat exploration program to the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, with one to two wells planned for this winter season. T...

Target North Slope gas? 08/19/2007
2007-2008 exploration plans in early stages, expect busy season, gas wells
If Anadarko Petroleum drills the undeveloped Gubik gas field this winter it will be the first explorer in northern Alaska to target natural gas instead of oil, betting a gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay...

Oil Patch Insider 07/15/2007
Forest Alaska asset sale still in works; Savant gets Kuukpik rig; McIntosh joins Brooks Range; Crowley appoints Cox
When Forest Oil announced the sale of its Alaska assets to Pacific Energy Resources at the end of May, the companies expected the deal to close by June 30, with Pacific Energy taking over Forest's ope...

BRPC announces North Slope crude discovery 04/15/2007
Operator Brooks Range says found 70 feet of oil-charged Ivishak sandstone north of Prudhoe at North Shore; Sag River a dry hole
BRPC Group has discovered oil at its North Shore No. 1 exploration well on Alaska's central North Slope, operator Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. said April 11. The offshore well was drilled from onshore...

OIL PATCH INSIDER 03/25/2007
Brooks Range spuds second North Slope exploration well; Agrium delays Nikiski startup
BRPC Group has spud its second well of the season on Alaska's North Slope, the group's operator, Brooks Range Petroleum Corp., told Petroleum News. Nabors Alaska Drilling Rig 27-E spud the Sak River N...