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Vol. 11, No. 43 Week of October 22, 2006
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Family seeks big rent payoff

Heirs of Native allotment holder sue for more than $180 million in damages; charges U.S., BP with wrongdoing in Prudhoe Bay lease negotiated by Bureau of Indian Affairs

Rose Ragsdale

For Petroleum News

An Alaska Native family has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking back rent and interest that could exceed $180 million for the use of 10 acres they own in the Prudhoe Bay unit on the North Slope. The descendants of Andrew Oenga said the elderly Inupiat who once lived at Heald Point, a strip of....

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BP: Not our dispute

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No proper valuation


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