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  • Railbelt utilities addressing facilities – 11/09/2014  The Mayor's Energy Task Force got updates Oct. 21 from the major Railbelt utilities — Enstar Natural Gas, Chugach Electric Association, Matanuska Electric Association and Municipal Light & Power. Southcentral natural gas supplies were a concern when Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan created the task for….
  • Conditional Badami pipeline transfer OK'd – 11/09/2014  The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved a transfer of interest in the Nutaaq Pipeline — running from Badami to Endicott — subject to a number of conditions. In an Oct. 22 ruling RCA said the approval is subject to receipt of a corporate guaranty of Miller Energy Resources, closing of the t….
  • Canada goes deep – 11/09/2014  Canada's upstream industry is dealing with a scramble to secure deep drilling rigs, according to the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors. Triple rigs with rated depth capacities of 10,000 feet or more now make up 60 percent of the fleet, compared with 29 percent eight years ago, Mar….
  • Fossil energy still dominates in US – 11/09/2014  A new report by the GAO, or Government Accountability Office, overviews U.S. energy usage and the various factors, including federal government actions that affect energy production and consumption. The report is based on data from the years 2000 to 2013. Perhaps predictably, the agency found that t….
  • USCG winds down Arctic Shield 2014 – 11/09/2014  The U.S. Coast Guard has concluded its Arctic Shield 2014 program, the agency announced on Oct. 31. The program is the latest of a series of annual operations that the Coast Guard conducts, primarily during the summer Arctic open water season, to ramp up the agency's Arctic presence, engage with Arc….
  • RCA OKs Hilcorp pipeline consolidation – 11/09/2014  The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved the consolidation of Hilcorp's Cook Inlet gas transmission pipelines into a single pipeline system called the Kenai Beluga Pipeline, or KBPL. The consolidation merges four previously separate pipelines, the Beluga Pipeline, the Kenai Kachemak Pipeline….
  • Shell CFO won't speculate on lease situation – 11/09/2014  In answers to questions during a media webcast following Shell's announcement of its third quarter 2014 results, Simon Henry, the company's chief financial officer, declined to speculate on what might happen if the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement turns down Shell's request for five-ye….