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: Exploring on pause, development on go 11/18/2007
Pioneer focusing on Oooguruk development, Cosmo delineation; exploration still on hold due to disappointing results, concern about Alaska's tax regime
Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources has no immediate plans to resume its Alaska oil and gas exploration program, Timothy Dove, Pioneer's president and chief operating officer, said on Sept. 27, 200...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Petro-Canada: From operator to partner 11/18/2007
A better headline for this story might have been "Petro-Canada: From possible operator to partner" because the company had not actually drilled a well in Alaska when it decided to continue to play the...

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: Anadarko to drill first ANS gas well 11/18/2007
Has two rigs under contract, drilling 2 Brooks Range gas prospects, going back to finish Jacob's Ladder
Anadarko Petroleum and its partners in the Brooks Range Foothills, BG Alaska and Petro-Canada, plan to drill the first two natural gas exploration wells in northern Alaska this winter. Gas discoveries...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: Gas giant BG strong partner 11/18/2007
London-based BG Group, one of the world's largest natural gas companies, entered Alaska in January 2006, with a Brooks Range Foothills joint venture agreement with Anadarko Petroleum and Petro-Canada....

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...

THE EXPLORERS 2007: FEX puts NPR-A drilling on pause 11/18/2007
Independent remains committed, but concerned about land access, high costs, fiscal regime, postpones drilling for two years
FEX L.P.'s decision to put its Alaska drilling program on pause for two years came as a surprise to everyone except those paying attention to the federal government's cancellation of National Petroleu...

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...

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: Colville launches White Night for offshore logistics 11/04/2007
The White Night is a high-performance work boat, named for the midnight sun of the Arctic, where Colville will station it for "bare boat" charters beginning in August.and#8194; The 32 foot customized Bo...

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...

FEX puts NPR-A drilling on pause 10/21/2007
Independent remains committed, but concerned about land access, high costs, fiscal regime, postpones drilling for two years
FEX L.P.'s decision to put its Alaska drilling program on pause for two years came as a surprise to everyone except those paying attention to the federal government's cancellation of National Petroleu...

30 STRONG: Mega-line drives industry technology 10/14/2007
30-year old trans-Alaska pipeline adopts best new technology for safe, reliable operation
In the 30 years since operators moved the first barrel of Prudhoe Bay oil down the trans-Alaska pipeline in 1977, improvements in technology have illuminated the path forward on Alaska's North Slope. ...

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...

Anadarko plans wells at Gubik, Chandler 09/30/2007
Two or more wells to be drilled on ASRC-owned lands near Umiat this winter targeting gas; drilling will be from ice pads
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has begun the application process to drill for gas at its Gubik and Chandler prospects on Arctic Slope Regional Corp. land near Umiat in Alaska's Brooks Range Foothills. And a...

Anadarko files to drill gas wells 09/16/2007
A state official told Petroleum News Sept. 12 that Anadarko Petroleum has submitted a plan of operations to drill two wells in the undeveloped Gubik gas field in the Brooks Range Foothills. That confi...

Caribou thrive near Alaska's largest oil fields 09/16/2007
When the Alaska Department of Fish and Game last took a count in July 2002, the Central Arctic caribou herd was thriving. The results of an aerial photo census pegged the herd population at 31,857 ani...

Technology aids quest for happy caribou 09/16/2007
After 30 years of study, much has been learned about North Slope's Central Arctic herd as industry adapts to accommodate animals
Both government and industry scientists acknowledge that the question of caribou in the oil fields of the Arctic is a very complex topic. "It has been a challenge for us to try and study it and to mak...

NPR-A in limbo 08/26/2007
Draft EIS for Northeast NPR-A out, earliest lease sale after 2008 election
The federal government's plan to open the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas development has officially been derailed for at least two years, starting with a September 2006 court order t...

ConocoPhillips has five-year NPR-A plan 08/19/2007
BLM environmental assessment covers 11 exploration wells during 2006-11: two Noatak, two Nugget, three Cassin, four Spark DD wells
ConocoPhillips Alaska only drilled one well on federal land in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in the 2006-07 winter season, the Noatak No. 1. But an environmental assessment by the Bureau of L...

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...