Conoco: ULSD facility won't be built 12/02/2007
State of Alaska's tax changes blamed; Revenue Commissioner Pat Galvin says facility wouldn't have qualified under 2006 PPT
A proposed upgrade to a North Slope topping plant to produce the ultra-low-sulfur diesel required to meet federal government standards of no more than 15 parts per million of sulfur has been canceled...

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...

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: 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...

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...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: NAC delivers Barrow's football field 11/04/2007
In July Northern Air Cargo began flying the first segment of 62,000 pounds of Pro-Turf synthetic field grass for Barrow High School's football field. The majority of the freight was trucked to Deadhor...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Carlile recognizes performance in safety 11/04/2007
Carlile Transportation recognized individual drivers for outstanding safety performance at its first annual driver safety awards banquet September 22 in Anchorage. "Our goal is to be the best, safest...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: ASTAC meets Arctic region's communications needs with state-of-the-art services 11/04/2007
Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative offers local and long distance, Internet, 850 MHz Wireless, wired and 700 MHz licensed wireless broadband, and Arctic Lite Transparent LAN service
Q. When was ASTAC founded, who founded it, and what was its original name? A. The Arctic Slope Regional Corp., seeking region-wide telephone service, provided seed-funding in 1979. It soon became ap...