Pfoff: Aurora Power on life support 03/18/2007
Southcentral Alaska natural gas marketing company Aurora Power has since its foundation in 1994 provided gas consumers with an alternative gas supply option to major gas utility Enstar Natural Gas Co....

ANGDA having trouble getting funding 03/18/2007
Senate refuses to add $5 million request to supplemental; CEO Heinze says grubstake bonds, selling partial interest are options
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority is having trouble getting $5 million it needs to move ahead with its Alaska Gas Market System from the Alaska Legislature. The Alaska Senate refused Ma...

Legislature gets AGIA 03/11/2007
First hearing in House OandG March 13; Alaska legislators support concept
The Alaska Legislature is now in possession of Gov. Sarah Palin's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, with the first hearings scheduled on the bill in the House Special Committee on Oil and Gas March 13. ...

Cash, but no ownership 03/04/2007
Alaska gas pipeline act has state investing up to $500M for certification
Alaska would contribute to upfront costs of an Alaska natural gas pipeline project, but would not be an owner, Gov. Sarah Palin said Feb. 28 from Washington, D.C. The governor, in the nation's capita...

MINING NEWS: Alaska mining news summary: Tight personnel, equipment market in busy mining industry 02/25/2007
Okay, the lull is over. It lasted about 25, maybe 30 minutes, after I wrote those prophetic but ill-considered words in late January! Shortly after that point I was in Vancouver for the annual Cordill...

Irwin back at DNR 02/18/2007
Governor brings back former commissioner; Marty Rutherford to focus on gas
If more proof were needed that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is headed in a different direction on North Slope gas pipeline negotiations than that of the previous administration, Palin's appointment of Tom...

Giard defends RCA Enstar/Marathon decision 02/11/2007
In a statement issued on Feb. 2, Regulatory Commission of Alaska Chair Kate Giard spelled out the reasoning behind the commission's majority decision to reject Enstar Natural Gas Co.'s proposed new Co...

Cook Inlet natural gas in a nutshell 02/04/2007
In mid-January the Institute of Social and Economic Research released a summary of the 2006 Southcentral Energy Forum that took place in Anchorage in September. The summary, sponsored by the Alaska O...

ANGDA goes local 02/04/2007
Alaska Gas Market System looks at 1.25 bcf line to Southcentral, Valdez
Hung out to dry during the Murkowski administration - which focused exclusively on a project by the major Prudhoe Bay owners to take Alaska North Slope gas to the Lower 48 - the Alaska Natural Gas Dev...

Two gas pipeline entities will work together 01/21/2007
Alaska Gasline Port Authority, Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, sign MOU; governor pleased with cooperation
The Alaska Gasline Port Authority and the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority have signed a formal agreement to work cooperatively on developing a natural gas pipeline. Officials with the two vot...

Alaska LNG rumor denied 01/14/2007
News report indicates biggest customer may be edging away from Nikiski supply
The biggest customer for liquefied natural gas coming from Nikiski's LNG plant may be looking for other sources of supply after March 2009. That's when the aging plant will need a new export license f...

Izzo: Short-term LNG could help spur line 01/07/2007
A story in the Dec. 31 issue of Petroleum News quoted former Enstar CEO Tony Izzo as telling the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority board that liquefied natural gas imported into Cook Inlet coul...

LNG into Cook Inlet could kill spur line 12/31/2006
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority has had disquieting discussions about Cook Inlet natural gas supplies in the past and at a Dec. 18 board meeting they got more unsettling news about one po...

Propane demo in works 12/31/2006
ANGDA: Proposal to truck 100 bpd from Prudhoe to Yukon River propane facility
While a gas pipeline from the North Slope could directly benefit communities along the line such as Fairbanks - or those in Southcentral via a spur line - providing access to natural gas for Alaska ru...

What role for ANGDA under Palin? 12/24/2006
New governor asks agency to take another look at LNG project in voter initiative, but not pushing that as number one for state
Why hasn't the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority pursued an LNG project out of Valdez? Apparently it was a question Gov. Sarah Palin asked ANGDA CEO Harold Heinze, board Vice Chairman Scott He...

Judges query lawyers in FERC case regarding Alaska gas line regs 12/24/2006
Oral arguments in an appeal of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules guiding development of the Alaska gas pipeline took twice as long in a federal appeals court Dec. 5 as the 30 minutes judges s...

Oil Patch Insider 12/17/2006
NW NPR-A open for travel, other areas still closed; Pearce sworn in
The Bureau of Land Management said Dec. 13 that it is allowing tundra travel in the northwest planning area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, provided that operators ensure that they meet the...

A 6-month window 12/17/2006
Commission, gas and electric utilities need to be ready for open season
Alaska is well positioned to take gas off in-state under an initial open season for a North Slope natural gas pipeline project. But if for any reason potential in-state users don't take capacity on th...

Palin to examine last-hour job blitz 12/10/2006
Out-going governor names chief of staff Jim Clark to ANGDA board; does not reappoint present chairman Andy Warwick
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will revisit 35 appointments made by her predecessor in the hour before he left office, especially one she called "bizarre." The appointment is that of Murkowski's former chief...

Palin to consider all gas pipeline proposals; preliminary meetings with 12 firms, agencies held; state negotiating team being formed 12/10/2006
The new administration has had initial meetings with those involved in - or wanting to be involved in - an Alaska North Slope gas commercialization project, and came away with information to assimilat...

Is FERC out of bounds? 11/26/2006
D.C. court to hear Exxon, BP, Conoco's challenge related to Alaska gas line access
Exxon Mobil Corp., BP and ConocoPhillips Inc., the three companies that are dickering with the State of Alaska over a contract to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the Lower 48, are also fig...

ANGDA board approves business plan 11/19/2006
Authority's most essential role may be in taking lead on meeting Southcentral Alaska's future energy needs as gas runs out
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority board wrapped up work under the administration of Gov. Frank Murkowski by adopting a business plan - a plan that Chief Executive Officer Harold Heinze said...

THE EXPLORERS 2006 - Forest Oil talks up Alaska natural gas 11/12/2006
Clark wants to expand onshore production, but did only two workovers in state in first 10 months of 2006
AT Forest Oil's 2006 analysts' conference on March 16, 2006, company CEO Craig Clark confirmed an Alaska strategy that he had outlined to shareholders in November 2005: Forest wants to expand its Alas...

THE EXPLORERS 2006 - The past, the present, a new day 2006-2046 11/12/2006
The history of the oil and gas industry and the State of Alaska is the story of huge risks taken, incredible challenges met, and the promise kept to provide a secure economic base for Alaska and its p...

Alaska could lose out to LNG 10/01/2006
FERC chairman concerned political complacency and influx of LNG could see Alaska gas pipeline delayed by two years or scrapped altogether; top federal energy agency disagrees
Complacency among Alaska lawmakers and the expected rapid growth in U.S. imports of liquefied natural gas could delay completion of an Alaska natural gas pipeline by two years and perhaps derail the p...