Cook Inlet Energy plans 3-well gas test this winter on west side 12/05/2010
Cook Inlet Energy is permitting a three-well exploration program starting this winter. The Stingray program would take place on the West Foreland peninsula near the Trading Bay production facility on...

Linc files for well in Point MacKenzie area 08/29/2010
The Alaska Coastal Management Program is reviewing Linc Energy's proposal to drill a well this fall in the Point MacKenzie area of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The Australian company wants to drill...

Looking at Cohoe: Aurora wants to test old Kasilof well for gas 08/22/2010
Faced with the pending expiry of some state leases southwest of Soldotna on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Aurora Gas has filed paperwork with Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas to re-enter the Cohoe No. 1 w...

DCOM taking comments on North Fork line 08/01/2010
A proposed pipeline to market natural gas in the southern Kenai Peninsula is up for review and public comments under the Alaska Coastal Management Program. Anchor Point Energy, a subsidiary of indepen...

CINGSA applies to RCA 08/01/2010
Semco forms joint venture with MidAmerican to develop Kenai gas storage facility
With gas utility Enstar Natural Gas Co. wanting to be able to use a planned new gas storage facility on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula by the summer of 2012, to avert Southcentral Alaska gas deliverability...

Coastal zone change bills heard and held 04/04/2010
Proposal to return to more coastal district control over development supported by communities, opposed by administration, industry
Alaska's coastal communities want a change in the Alaska Coastal Management Program to give them more local control over development. The administration and the oil and gas and mining industries want...

Continuing challenge to Arctic OCS drilling 02/21/2010
Speakers pitch in on the debate about the appropriate level of environmental assurance for offshore oil and gas leasing and drilling
To drill or not to drill is the core question in the current controversy surrounding oil exploration in the outer continental shelf off northern Alaska. Shell is chomping at the bit, preparing to dril...

ACMP review of Shell's Chukchi plan out 11/29/2009
The Alaska Coastal Management Program review of Shell's 2010 Chukchi Sea drilling plan is out for public comment, with comments due on or before Dec. 22 and a final determination to be issued by Jan....