Momentum builds behind energy report 12/09/2007
Anchorage Chamber findings, recommendations could spur critical public policy changes across Alaska as briefings continue
A report on energy-related problems facing Alaska, released two weeks ago, has ignited little more than positive comments so far, but its authors hope the report calling for changes will light a fire...

Scenario 'alarming ... downright scary' 12/02/2007
Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor tells RDC conference attendees Alaska needs energy plan; closing LNG plant not the solution
John Williams, mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, says shutting down the liquefied natural gas facility in Nikiski is only a short-term solution to the natural gas supply situation in Southcentral...

Making headway in Arctic 12/02/2007
Three major gas fields offshore Norway and Russia create new paradigms
When it comes to mega natural gas projects that push the technology envelope, they don't come much larger and more state of the art than the three projects on the Norwegian and Russian continental she...

Rick Fox: Shell in Alaska for long haul 11/25/2007
Although a lawsuit has put Beaufort Sea drilling on hold in 2007 company moved ahead with Chukchi seismic and other programs
Despite the setback of a court-enforced suspension of Shell's Beaufort Sea drilling program, Rick Fox, the company's Alaska asset manager, gave an upbeat assessment of Shell's progress in Alaska at th...

Pioneer to spud first development wells 11/25/2007
Big independent in final stages of offshore North Slope Oooguruk oil field construction; prepares to drill first of 40 wells
In mid-November Ken Sheffield, president of Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska, told attendees of the Resource Development Council's annual conference that Pioneer is nearing the end of the construction...

Cosmo drilling done, flow test next 11/25/2007
Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska has finished drilling a horizontal appraisal well in the 25,000-acre Cosmopolitan unit in the Cook Inlet basin. Company President Ken Sheffield told attendees of the m...

Employment booming on North Slope 11/25/2007
Employment is booming in the North Slope oil fields, according to a state labor economist. Projected employment is expected to reach 11,400 jobs this year - the highest number since oil production beg...

Chevron ups stake 11/25/2007
Back on North Slope, 2007-08 AK investment doubled, might again in 2009
Chevron is back exploring on the North Slope - for the first time since the early 1990s - and will start a two-year drilling program at its White Hills exploration prospect later this year. John Zage...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Statoil Hydro enters Alaska; Ken Boyd 'man on the ground' for mega-major 11/18/2007
In mid-2007, Norsk Hydro USA hired Ken Boyd as a consultant in Alaska. Jim Meek, manager of business development for the Houston-based affiliate of Norway's Hydro which merged in October 2007 with Nor...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: ConocoPhillips drops 300,000 acres 11/18/2007
Major and its independent partners focused on appraising previously announced NPR-A discoveries
ConocoPhillips Alaska's exploration program reached into far western NPR-A last winter, 2006-07. In 2007-08 the company plans to drill closer in, with proposed exploration wells - the program had not...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Chevron: working across the state 11/18/2007
White Hills exploration to begin this winter, company continues to look at Cook Inlet opportunities
Chevron, an oil and gas explorer and producer in Alaska for decades, will begin exploration drilling this winter at its White Hills prospect in the Brooks Range foothills on the southern edge of the N...

Investment at risk 11/18/2007
Oil company execs says consequences dire if Alaska hikes taxes again
Investment in Alaska is in jeopardy if the state's oil production tax is overhauled in such a way that it significantly increases the State of Alaska's take, oil company executives told attendees of t...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Bob Cox joins Crowley as GM 11/04/2007
In July Crowley Maritime Corporation announced that Bob Cox had joined the company's petroleum distribution group as general manager. Cox is domiciled in the company's Anchorage office and reports t...