Seamount gets reappointed

Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski announced Jan. 13 the reappointment of Daniel Seamount to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission effective March 1. The six-year appointment will expire in 2011. Seamount, who holds the seat designated for a geologist, was appointed to the commission in 2000.

Seamount will continue his duties as one of three commissioners assigned to the AOGCC, the governor’s office said. The commission’s duties include regulating oil and gas drilling, development and production, reservoir depletion and metering operations. The commission also oversees prohibition of physical waste of hydrocarbons, protection of correlative mineral interest owners, assuring maximum ultimate recovery of hydrocarbon resources, administering Alaska’s Class II Underground Injection Control Program and determining well categories under the Federal Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.

Before joining the commission Seamount worked as a geologist for Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Marathon Oil Co. and Union Oil Company of California.

The reappointment is subject to legislative confirmation.

—Petroleum News