Regulatory Commission of Alaska.  Today the Commission's hearing room should be full as all those interested in the failing, Cook Inlet natural gas supply scenario will convene to discuss whether the Commission should open a Regulations Docket addressing pricing provisions in natural gas supply contracts.  We will comment frequently and at length on this process in coming days, since decisions made here will have big impact on many Alaskan energy issues(See our 7-13-09 comment).   One is drawn to the wisdom of having the RCA simply fall back on its 2001, Union Oil-Enstar gas supply precedent.  And, it [...]

...will begin showing up Wednesday afternoon following a number of meetings and conference calls.     -dh     PNA via ADN.   North Slope production dropped 17 percent from May to June as the trans-Alaska oil pipeline took its first planned summer timeout for maintenance work June 20-21. North Slope production dropped below 300,000 barrels per day over that weekend.      *         Calgary Herald by Kelly Cryderman.  More than 20,000 old oil and gas wells across the province have been sitting abandoned or inactive for more than a decade without being cleaned up, worrying landowners and [...]