Is Alaska North Slope Propane Part of the Answer?

Plan Today For ANS Propane Conference: March 31 (Contact Leah Burkes) Calgary Herald: Buyer's Market For Gas Representative Craig Johnson (NGP Photo-l) Says Tax Reform Is Key To Gas Pipeline Our commentary: The question is, how do the producers monetize Alaska North Slope gas reserves.  The answer revolves around Alaska natural gas pipeline planning, for the most part.  Two consortia have conducted 'open seasons' to determine the market demand for a major gas transmission system supplying the Lower 48 states.  So far, the results of that effort have lacked luster [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:00-09:00March 15th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Bradner Suggests Gas Pipeline Plan B May Rise From The Ashes Of Current Pipedreams – We Comment On Common Challenges of Mackenzie and Alaska Projects

Check for our BOEMRE hearing story and photos to be uploaded soon!  If you did not comment on the proposed 2012-2017 leasing program, send your comments here before March 31. NOT TO BE MISSED: Alaskans and Canadians finding themselves in Anchorage on Wednesday, will find much value in the Captain Cook Hotel luncheon forum on the Future of Alaska.  Moderated by Alaska radio personality Dan Fagan (NGP Photo) the panel features an impressive cast of Northern energy experts and observers.   ADN by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo)--It's time for a talk [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:01-09:00March 14th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Mackenzie Project Approved Yesterday!

In coming days, we will provide commentary.  While the Government of Canada has approved the Mackenzie project, deadlines and conditions pose obstacles along the way.  One perceives that the growing power and influence of eco-activists, socialists and government sympathizers are making reasonable Arctic resource development in both countries uneconomic in some cases and more costly for consumers and taxpayers in all cases.   (See NEB release and related documents.)   -dh   ADN/AP.  Alaska and ExxonMobil Could Settle Point Thomson Dispute Globe and Mail by Nathan Vanderklippe.  The Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline has cleared its [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:03:43-09:00March 11th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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BOEMRE Process Threatens America’s Economy and Alaska’s Survival As A Viable State of the Union

Comment: We urge all participants in last night's hearing to 1) send us your written comments and we will link them for you on this webpage, and 2) write and tell us of any additions or corrections you recommend for our work here to help us maintain the highest degree of factual accuracy.  While readers may disagree with our editorial opinion from time to time, we should all be able to agree on facts.  From facts flow assumptions and theories and from them flow public policies.  Facts, therefore, matter; your [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:01-09:00March 10th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Attend Meetings Today In Anchorage and Fairbanks To Determine Alaska’s Future!

Canadian Readers: The Calgary Herald reports, "The question of shale-gas drilling in Quebec needs to be further studied, says a committee that spent the past six months looking into the industry.  The committee says the government should do a strategic environmental evaluation of shale-gas drilling. That's the kind of long-term study that was done on oil and gas drilling in the lower St. Lawrence River, which led to a ban on drilling last fall. That type of study, overseen by an expert committee, can take one to two years to [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:58:37-09:00March 9th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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BOEMRE Controversy Continues This Week In Anchorage and Fairbanks – Denali Project Questions Deadline – Mackenzie Sponsors Still Seek Government Backing

  GREATER FAIRBANKS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (GFCC) NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE TO HOST COFFEE, CROISSANTS & COMMENTS EVENT FOR OUTER CONTINENTAL OIL & GAS LEASE PUBLIC SCOPING PERIOD   On Wednesday, March 9, the GFCC’s Natural Resources Committee will host “Coffee, Croissants & Comments” from 7am until 11am at the Chamber office (located at 100 Cushman Street (attached to the Key Bank Building downtown) to give members of the Chamber and the community the opportunity to submit public comment to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) regarding [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:01-09:00March 8th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Monday Miscellany

Monday Miscellany and Commentary Over the weekend, we participated in Governor Sean Parnell's Prayer Breakfast (NGP Photo, with Ravi Zacharias), in the Iditarod Dog Sled Race Startup, and in Fur Rendezvous events.  See our notes and photos below and read why we include these items in 'Northern Gas Pipelines' In a Washington Times article last Thursday by Elizabeth Wong and Josh Brown our own Doug Smith and Mark Hylan and Rep. Scott Kawasaki took different sides in the debate of Alaska's investment climate.  We believe the evidence continues to mount that if Kawasaki's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:02-09:00March 7th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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RDC Hears Persuasive Pebble Message – Canadian Gas Markets Impacted by Shale, Too – Today, BOEMRE Files Revised Chukchi SEIS Schedule – FERC Tells Congress of Project Delay

Today, BOEMRE's John Callahan informed us that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has revised its schedule for the completion of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) being prepared for Oil & Gas Lease Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska. The revised schedule allows the Bureau to analyze a Very Large Oil Spill (VLOS) scenario.  The draft SEIS is being prepared to comply with a remand on specific issues by the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska in July, 2010.  The SEIS will now be [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:02-09:00March 4th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Alaska Oil Spending Flat – Mackenzie Gas Needs Push From Ottawa

ADN by (AP) Becky Bohrer.  BP PLC has joined Conoco Phillips in saying it expects its capital investment in the state to be flat this year. Financial Post by (Reuters) Oil companies behind a $16.2-billion plan to build a gas pipeline from the Canadian Arctic expect to restart talks with Ottawa shortly over financial support in hopes of striking a deal by mid-year, the head of one of the partners said on Wednesday.  The players have scheduled a conference call for next week to hammer out a timetable for the discussions, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:02-09:00March 3rd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Enviros Want Feds To Manipulate Future Hearings Against Alaskan Opinion – The Governor’s Speech

Commentary: The Governor's Speech.  Last Friday we urged readers to attend and support Governor Sean Parnell's appearance before the National Press Club.  The speech perfectly illustrated Alaska's importance to the country and the challenges the state faces with a hostile and aggressive federal government.  We provide a video of the event (Scroll down) which includes questions from the press corps following the speech.   -dh BOEMRE Event Commentary by Dave Harbour (Harbour BOEMRE Testimony) Commentary: The BOEMRE Hearing.  Friday night we witnessed an exceptional turnout of Alaskan citizens from all over the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:02-09:00March 2nd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Friday We Fought the Feds – Now We Turn To HB 110

 Both issues deal with the investment climate: one on federal lands, one on state lands.  Both are equally important.  dh   ADN Op Ed by Doug Smith (NGP Photo).  Over the past two weeks, the House Resources Committee, co-chaired by Representatives Paul Seaton of Homer and Eric Feige of Valdez, has been hearing testimony on House Bill 110, the governor's bill that would create much-needed reform of taxes levied on oil production. As CEO of a small oil-field services company and a member of the board of directors of the [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:29-09:00March 1st, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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