USGS Calls NPR-A Gas Province – Barrons Notes Governor Parnell’s Push for Oil – WSJ Describes Declining TAPS Production – Alberta Streamlines Regulatory Process

Personal:  Last night we returned from a wonderful meeting with Kentucky Colonels in the Churchill Downs Museum during the Kentucky Derby (NGP Photos above) and continued our Derby photography project for the second year running.  We were disappointed, however, to return and find little written yet about the forum Alaska gas pipeline Federal Coordinator Larry Persily (NGP Photo-L) had organized in Anchorage last night.  The program contained a cast of excellent speakers and we certainly would have been there to report on the highlights had we not been on an airplane at the time. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:51-09:00May 11th, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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Skagway Port Could Help Canadian Mining and Alaska AND Canadian Gas Pipelines

Mineweb by Dorothy Kosich.  Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) has signed legislation that allows up to $65 million in bonds to finance major upgrades in the Skagway Port, which expands the place from which Yukon mining ore can be shipped overseas.  House Bill 119 also expands the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority's (AIDEA) ability to invest in roads....  Historically, Skagway has been the fastest route out of the Yukon. The Klondike Gold Rush put the port on the map more than a century ago.  The Port of Skagway is the northernmost, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:51-09:00May 10th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Persily Promotes Pipeline Perseverance – Point of Personal Privilege: Honoring Ron Miller

We exercise our personal privilege: to honor our friend Ron Miller, who passed away yesterday.  We are grateful for a good ADN story by Lisa Demer that pretty well describes why those who knew Ron, will remember him as a dedicated citizen who gave more than full measure for the good of his fellow man and whose life of professional competence and high integrity ended entirely too soon.   -dh ADN Compass Piece by Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily (NGP Photo).  It's time to once again show that Alaska can [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:51-09:00May 9th, 2011|Federal Coordinator, Personal|0 Comments
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Congressman Doc Hastings Moves OCS Legislation With Bipartisan Help – RDC Hears PacRim Coal’s Environmental Message – We’re Off To The Races!

 See Arctic Imperative Summit Agenda: June 19-21, Alyeska Resort, Anchorage "Mining and Fish" were the focus of the Resource Development Council for Alaska's (RDC) early morning meeting today in the Anchorage Convention Center when PacRim Coal's Project Manager Dan Graham (NGP Photo) inventoried the mining-fish relationships and history in Alaska.  See Video Here.  (Event Photos below.) WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2011 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1230, the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act, with a bipartisan vote of 266 to 149. Introduced by Natural Resources Committee Chairman [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 5th, 2011|Federal Progress, Personal|0 Comments
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Boeing and Oil Have Alaska and Economics In Common – Taxpayers Attack Reid-Obama Energy Policy

40 National Groups Want Action on Energy!   Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  Repairs at the Horizon oilsands upgrader near Fort McMurray are expected to cost between $350 million and $450 million and half of the plant is to be ready to commission by by mid-June, owner Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. reported Thursday. The Alaska Standard by Pete Sepp.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV-PPG $3.91) is pushing for a vote in the Senate to target the energy sector with tax hikes disguised as the elimination of “subsidies.” These tax increases [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 5th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Coastal Governors Coalition Attracts BOEMRE Attention As Stephen Harper’s Election Bodes Well For The Oilpatch

See Arctic Imperative Summit Agenda: June 19-21, Alyeska Resort, Anchorage Comment.  Yesterday (Scroll down) we reported on the creation Monday of a Coastal Governors Coalition preparing to meet the various challenges posed by federal government Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) policy.  Today, we offer readers this letter sent yesterday by Michael Bromwich (NGP Photo), Director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) to the four governors: Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry of Texas, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Alaska's Sean Parnell.  The letter stresses how [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 4th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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Sean Parnell Joins Other Governors In Coastal Governors Coalition – Congress Focuses On OCS This Week

Commentary: We have written here for over two years about overreach of the federal government affecting both on- and off-shore natural resource exploration and development.  That overreach affects virtually every human activity in the North--including oil and gas pipeline efforts.  Yesterday in Houston, coastal governors -- including Sean Parnell -- began to organize a joint effort to augment their individual federal overreach defenses.  -dh Houston Chronicle.  Rick Perry (NGP Photo) is joining governors from Alaska and other states bordering the Gulf of Mexico today in a bid to get coastal state [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 3rd, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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NYT Says Shell to Submit New Arctic Exploration Plan – SPE Keynote Speaker is Alaska Commissioner Cathy Foerster

Register here for the North American meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and hear Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commissioner Cathy Foerster's (NGP Photo-Above) Keynote address next Monday morning in Anchorage: "The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's Response to Macondo."  -dh Petroleum News Headlines:  Heavy oil starts (Full story) Following a lengthy delay after the completion of a $100 million heavy oil test facility on Alaska's North Slope, BP has now put a heavy oil test well into operation ..... Exxon's Thomson warning (Full story) ExxonMobil is suggesting its Point Thomson project [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 2nd, 2011|Federal Progress|0 Comments
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ANS Natural Gas to Gasoline? – Tom Brennan Critiques Media – Harbour Misses Year over Year by 26 Seconds

PNA via ADN by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  With an increasing air of pessimism around the prospects for a pipeline to export natural gas from the North Slope, there is talk of alternatives for monetizing the vast quantities of gas stranded in Arctic Alaska. Point of Personal Privilege.  In order to keep up with northern energy news and our zippy readers, we, of course, need to remain on this side of the grass and reasonably fit.  To that end, l exercise almost every day and try while failing almost daily to eat [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:57:26-09:00May 1st, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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