Last Chance to Comment on OCS Leasing Before 9-21 Deadline...     Yesterday the 5th Annual Alaska Oil and Gas Congress began with a day-long seminar on the Alaska oil and gas tax structure.  Mayor Dan Sullivan was on hand to greet about 200 participants and Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) who offered the opening address.  This morning, Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin will offer the keynote followed by competing Alaska gas pipeline organizations led by TransCanada and Denali.  Your publisher is involved in the program and will offer more updates [...]

  This afternoon, Governor Sean Parnell, (NGP Photo-r) will open the four day  Alaska Oil and Gas Congress, Chaired by Dave Harbour, NGP Publisher.  Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin (NGP Photo-l) will deliver tomorrow's Keynote address.  More to come....    *     Alaska Journal of Commerce, by Tim Bradner. Governor Sean Parnell said he is pleased with progress on the pipeline, that he has been told the Denali consortium led by BP and ConocoPhillips will have cost estimates completed by the end of the year, and that ExxonMobil Corp. has aligned itself with TransCanada Corp., which is leading a separate pipeline [...]

9-11-01: LEST WE FORGET!   On Thursday, Andrew Halcro appeared before the Alaska Support Industry Alliance in Anchorage and opined on many local and national issues--including the Alaska gas pipeline (See video below).  He closed by saying, "I will challenge the incumbent and run for Alaska's lone seat in the United States House of Representatives."   See Halcro's personal announcement here.   Following are some of Halcro's musings:       On National Debt.  "We are at a crossroads where we are about to burden our children with unsustainable debt." [...]

Radio Keni by Joe Nicks.  The race for governor continues to attract more attention, especially with the resignation of Sarah  Palin this summer. One candidate who actually announced his intent to run prior to the Palin resignation is Democrat Bob Poe (NGP Photo). Poe was at Industry Appreciation Days in Kenai to get his name out to the public.  One topic we discussed was future natural gas. We asked him if he has a new solution for a natural gas pipeline, or, if he wants to work with the current proposals. [...]

  Commentary on Governor Parnell's speech, yesterday:  One of the joys of this gas pipeline webpage and Lower 48 consulting work, is observing informative speeches.  I say, 'informative', because many convey information but few are actually so well prepared and presented and TIMELY that one looses track of time. This one was like an aesthetic experience (though political speeches are less likely to command such suspension of disbelief more commonly associated with nature, concert and spy novel experiences.)  Yesterday's message from Alaska's new Governor, Sean Parnell (NGP Photo, 9-3-09), was such a message, [...]

(ADN by Elizabeth Bluemink and AP Story, News Miner.  Read about yesterday's climate change rally in Anchorage; and FOR THE BEST ANALYSIS IN THE STATE ON YESTERDAY'S ACTIVITY, READ ANDREW HALCRO'S PIECE (NGP Photo).   *     ADN via PNA, by Alan Bailey....on the Southcentral Alaska gas shortage.) Scandanavian Oil and Gas.  In an article in Canada's Globe & Mail, native leaders hoping to be $8-billion partners in the Mackenzie Valley project via their Aboriginal Pipeline Group have expressed a high level of angst that the $16-billion effort will stall and not bring development to [...]