Bookmark AGDC's Cook Inlet Gas Study   Energy crises: SNGPL shuts gas supply to Punjab industry indefinitely.  The Express Tribune.  Fertiliser sector not to be affected, but APTMA threatens street protests if gas not resumed. SNGPL blames CNG stations for aggravating the gas load shedding problem for domestic consumers. LAHORE: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) issued ...  Oilsands operators boost spending plans for 2012.  Montreal Gazette, By DAN HEALING, Postmedia News; Calgary Herald December 29, 2011 12:00 AM ... US State Department regulatory delays to the Keystone XL pipeline designed to ...   News Max: Rasmussen: 53% Favor Keystone XL Pipeline. [...]

Vote Here on Beaufort Sea Exploration (Inuvik Drum, right hand column) Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  (Canada is safe haven for oil investment.)  U.S. State Department regulatory delays to the Keystone XL pipeline designed to take oilsands crude to Texas refineries and a lengthening regulatory process for the Northern Gateway pipeline to the B.C. West Coast represent a risk that could hurt oilsands growth.... Calgary Herald by Dina O'Meara.  The pace of development of vast shale gas reserves in northeast-ern British Columbia accelerated Tuesday after Quick-silver Resources closed a $125-million [...]

The Houston Chronicle: Gasoline may rise above $4 as plants shut down.  Gasoline prices may rise above $4 a gallon next summer as refineries along the U.S. East Coast close, reducing fuel supply, said Edward Morse, New York-based head of commodities research at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Reuters: Q + A – Keystone XL pipeline debate has no easy answer Getting more oil from Canada, already the largest U.S. crude supplier, would reduce reliance on the Middle East and could make up for expected future shortfalls from Mexico and Venezuela.   Platts: US [...]

ADN by Sean Cockerham.  The Alaska Senate is about to enter a bruising debate over whether to slash how much Alaska taxes oil companies, with Senate President Gary Stevens calling the governor's tax cut plan a giveaway that could cost the state billions with little in return.   Peninsula Clarion by Molly Dischner.  New natural gas contracts will allow ConocoPhillips' liquified natural gas plant in Nikiski to resume exports next year, a company spokesperson said Thursday.  "We expect about four cargos in the second half of the year," said ConocoPhillips [...]

We return from our 11-15-16 future time capsule to warn our 2011 readers and Younger Self of Administrative overreach which threatens our constitutional republic and our energy induries that keep it wealthy enough to defend itself: Please review this threat here.  dh Public Radio.  Communities across the state are pouring over Governor Sean Parnell’s new budget proposal. One project that wasn’t included in the capital budget is the South Peninsula Pipeline, a project that would bring natural gas into the Homer area for the first time.