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Archive of: Oil & Gas

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Japanese group offers fast-track on LNG

A Japanese consortium working on an independent Alaska liquefied natural gas project has completed a feasibility study and given it to state officials.

May Issue 3 2013

BLM to tackle four high-risk abandoned wells this year

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a plan May 8 identifying 50 abandoned wells in the Alaska Arctic that it believes require clean-up by the agency.

May Issue 3 2013

Linc finishes Umiat test well, demobilizes rig

Linc Energy has completed its winter exploration program at Umiat, on the North Slope, and has demobilized its rig and equipment.

May Issue 3 2013

Uncertainty over pipeline could delay Umiat road project

A change in plans for a 100-mile road from the Dalton Highway to Umiat, in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, could set back permitting and construction for that project.

May Issue 3 2013

Alliance launches campaign against oil tax repeal initiative

Alaska’s oil and gas service companies launched a campaign May 13 urging voters not to sign petitions being circulated for a ballot proposition repealing Senate Bill 21, a bill passed by the Legislature modifying the state’s production tax on oil and gas, at least without learning more about the issue.

May Issue 3 2013

Arctic states open council to China, India, South Korea

KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — Arctic states agreed May 15 to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth’s north to become observers to their diplomatic council, boosting rising superpowers China, India and South Korea that are seeking to mine the region for its untapped energy and other natural resources.

May Issue 3 2013

Arctic states open council to China, India, SKorea

Arctic states agreed Wednesday to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth's north to become observers to their diplomatic council, boosting rising superpowers China, India and South Korea that are seeking to mine the region for its untapped energy and other natural resources.

May Issue 2 2013

Hilcorp dominates Cook Inlet lease sale

Bidding was modest in the state’s May 8 Cook Inlet areawide lease sale, held every spring.

May Issue 2 2013

Murkowski: Plan to have Alaska aid cleanup is dead

JUNEAU (AP) — A proposal to have the state help pay to clean up abandoned federal well sites in the Alaska arctic is “dead on arrival,” U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday.

May Issue 2 2013

More gas available, but distribution still has weak points

Southcentral utilities are breathing a little easier about natural gas supplies with Hilcorp Energy saying it can meet demand until 2017 by producing more gas from old wells it took over earlier this year from Marathon Oil.

May Issue 2 2013
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