Governor reappoints Jeremy Price to AOGCC

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has reappointed Jeremy Price to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation for a term beginning March 1, 2021, and ending March 1, 2027.

The governor named Price to fill the public seat on the commission in October 2019 and named him chair, filling a seat left vacant when the governor removed Hollis French from the commission in February 2019.

French had been named to the public seat in 2016 by Gov. Bill Walker.

The term Price was named to fill expires March 1, 2021.

Dan Seamount, who fills the geologist seat on the commission, was appointed in January 2000. He was most recently reappointed in 2017; his term expires March 1, 2023.

Jessie Chmielowski, the petroleum engineer on the commission, was appointed by Dunleavy in March 2019; her term expires March 1, 2025.

The governor’s appointments to the commission are subject to legislative approval.

- KRISTEN NELSON