Petroleum News by Eric Lidji (NGP Photo).  Alaska remains one of the least attractive places in North America for oil and gas investment, but its reputation compared to other hydrocarbon provinces improved slightly over the past year, according to recent survey of global petroleum industry executives.  The State of Alaska ranked 61st out of 147 jurisdictions while the federal Alaska Outer Continental Shelf ranked 52nd, according to the 2012 Global Petroleum Survey by the Fraser Institute, a right-leaning Canadian think tank. In the 2011 survey, respondents placed the State of [...]