In Memory of Sen. Ted Stevens: Ted Stevens: An Alaska mentor 08/29/2010
I braved the dusty AlCan Highway in my 1961 Ford station wagon after graduating from Colorado State in 1965. Rooming for a week in Anchorage's Parsons Hotel, I waved at the Beetles one afternoon in th...

What chance now for North Slope LNG? 12/20/2009
World market is growing fast but North Slope gas would need to compete on cost with massive new supplies close to tidewater
Few subjects raise the temperature more in a room full of Alaskans on a cold winter night than the perennial debate about exporting North Slope gas in a pipeline through Canada versus exporting the ga...

Port Authority reconsideration denied 02/03/2008
Administration will look at LNG alternative as part of evaluating TransCanada's proposed overland gas-to-market proposal
The state has rejected a reconsideration request by the Alaska Gasline Port Authority for its Alaska Gasline Incentive Act application. But liquefied natural gas - the project the Port Authority put f...

Russia-Alaska link: Tunnel or pipe dream not yet apparent 04/22/2007
Russian officials have introduced a plan to build a tunnel between Siberia and Alaska under the Bering Strait, saying the $65 billion project could be used to export Russian oil, natural gas, electric...

Moving on or starting over? 09/24/2006
Members of Commonwealth North, including gas contract study group members, aren't in agreement on what should happen next
Commonwealth North discussed its study report on the proposed gas fiscal contract at a meeting Sept. 8 (see story in Sept. 17 issue of Petroleum News). The discussion didn't cover all of the points i...

200 turn out for Anchorage rally 05/14/2006
Speakers want oil tax changes to wait until gas deal revealed; rally draws former governor, several gubernatorial candidates
Politicians and activists got rock star treatment May 5 outside the state headquarters building downtown, as they delivered a populist, "us before the oil companies" message. "Please, ladies and gentl...

Gas tax proposal moving 02/12/2006
Croft says bill incentive to develop gas; Conoco says it's bad public policy
When the House Special Committee on Ways and Means moved a gas reserves tax out of committee Feb. 3, Republican members said they were not moving the bill because they agreed with it, but because it i...

Alaska Gasline Port Authority fights on 06/26/2005
Hickel and Whitaker make case for an all-Alaska pipeline to Valdez to market North Slope natural gas via LNG project
With Sempra Energy pulling its funding from Alaska Gasline Port Authority's project, the port authority might seem to have its back to the wall. And the unwillingness of the North Slope producers to s...

Alaska governor's commissioner nominees get nod from Legislature 05/15/2005
A May 5 joint meeting of the Alaska House and Senate voted on Gov. Frank Murkowski's commissioner and board appointments. Approvals included: David Marquez as attorney general; Kurt Fredriksson as co...

Murkowski names commissioners, AG 04/03/2005
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has named two commissioners and the state's attorney general. The governor said March 31 that David Marquez has been appointed attorney general, McKie Campbell commissione...

Alaska Congressman Don Young refiles ANWR bill 01/23/2005
Legislation again carries H.R. 39 title, and again proposes no change in federal law that would give the state of Alaska 90 percent of royalties
U.S. Rep. Don Young has refiled his bill to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and, in a biennial bit of insider's irony, has once again secured for it the title "H.R. 39," Fair...

LNG market gets more competitive 07/13/2003
As more sellers enter the market, Asian buyers are looking for better deals
It's a different world than it used to be for sellers of liquefied natural gas. The terms for LNG sales to Asia - traditionally long-term inflexible contracts - are becoming more flexible as more sell...

California exploring LNG options 07/06/2003
Valdez-sponsored LNG summit hears from regulators, project proponents
The bottom line is what price producers will accept for North Slope natural gas, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski said June 28. That price has never been determined, he said in Valdez at an LNG summit spon...

Alaska stakes first riverbed claim; more to be filed 05/25/2003
Alaska has become the first state in the nation to claim a riverbed under a new process designed by the Bush administration to give up federal interests in some roads and waterways. Alaska claimed abo...