ABC News: Boehner: House Will Likely Attach Keystone Approval to New Jobs BillSpeaker John Boehner says that the House will try again to tie approval for the Keystone pipeline project to a new jobs bill being introduced next week

 

The News-Tribune: Ian Urbina Untapped natural gas estimates lowered by 40 percent – The difficulty and uncertainty in predicting natural gas resources was underscored last week when the Energy Information Administration released a report containing sharply lower estimates in the Lower 48.

 

Juneau Empire: Pat Forgey Low taxes for more oil: Will it work this time? – The drilling in Cook Inlet, and the big finds already announced, are part of a legislative effort in recent years to use tax credits to have the state pick up much of the cost of new exploratory drilling.

 

Fairbanks Daily News–Miner: Ross Adkins Propane, a bridge to gas: Obtaining ‘wasted’ product from Slope could be the keyHarold Heinze, the outgoing CEO of the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, says that there is an abundance of propane on the North Slope readily available for use.

 

Oil Online: Oil majors launch spill response program – The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP) announced the formation of the Oil Spill Response Technology Joint Industry Program (JIP) at the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø, Norway.