7-31-15

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  A July 17 application by BP to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for amendments to area injection orders for the Prudhoe Bay field marks a critical step toward the possibility of building a major gas pipeline for the export of natural gas from the North Slope. The application requests approval for an increase in the maximum amount of gas that can be withdrawn from the field and approval to inject additional carbon dioxide into the field reservoir. Although huge quantities of natural gas [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 31st, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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7-30-15 Murkowski’s Senate Energy Committee Votes to Lift Crude Export Ban and Allow State OCS Revenue Sharing

TONIGHT: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed major bills Thursday on lifting the crude oil export ban and its broad energy package. The oil export bill would also increase offshore drilling and provide revenue sharing for neighboring states. It passed 12-10, along party lines. "It's the result of collaborative efforts by members of this committee to boost offshore development, allow revenue sharing for coastal producing states and lift the outdated ban on crude exports," Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairwoman of the panel, said of the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 31st, 2015|Federal Progress, OCS, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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7-29-15 EPA Continues To Amass Federal Power At Expense of Citizen Freedom

Crude Oil Exports Would Benefit Great Lakes States: Murkowski   From our friend, Rebecca Logan (NGP Photo), General Manager, Alaska Support Industry Alliance:     The new EPA rule on Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is perhaps the most critical issuing facing us today.  The article below gives a great perspective on why so many are concerned about the rule, and the rule-making process.  Rebecca Logan General Manager Alaska Support Industry Alliance  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (NGP Photo), today convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to continue consideration [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 29th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-28-15 Is Climate Change Science Settled?

See our Facebook commentary this morning re: Climate Change  -dh From the Senate Energy Committee: See How Envronmental Extremism is Destroying California Lives Aussie Oil and Gas Observer: The smashing of the Shanghai stock market yesterday – an 8.5% fall (the biggest one day decline in eight years) – has reverberated around the world in both stock markets and commodity markets, and oil was not left out of the carnage.    ***    Japan’s average LNG price (per mmbtu) for June was down again – at US$8.65.  Volumetrically this figure is [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 28th, 2015|Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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7-27-15

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  On July 22 the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued permits allowing Shell to drill the top hole sections of two wells in the Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea. Shell now has all of the permits that it needs to start drilling.  However, BSEE is prohibiting Shell from drilling into hydrocarbon bearing zones until....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 27th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, OCS|0 Comments
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7-26-15 Canada-owned oil sands mine in Utah to begin producing in fall

Canada-owned oil sands mine in Utah to begin producing in fall Mining by  Cecilia Jamasmie.  Canada’s U.S. Oil Sands (TSX-V:USO) is fine tuning details to begin production at its mine in eastern Utah, the first commercial oil sands operations in the United States, after receiving final regulatory approvals from local officials late last week. While the mine had already been approved for construction, the Calgary-based company recently submitted a proposal to expand it. The Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining approved that plan, but ThinkProgressreported it did so on the condition that the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 27th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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7-25-15 Raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Communications Director Robert Dillon writes us that, "Reuters senior energy market analyst John Kemp today weighed in against a plan to raid the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to pay for three years of a six–year highway bill."  Following is the article: SPR oil sales would be a mistake before strategy review is concluded: John Kemp “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not an ATM,” Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee warned the Senate this week. “It is certainly not the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 25th, 2015|Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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7-24-15 Northern Pipelines, Economies, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal People Are Interdependent

Write us here to request a free, email alert subscription Northern Pipelines, Economies, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal People Are Interdependent Our Comment: Alaska Natives, Canadian Aboriginals and Northern economies depend on oil and gas development and the transportation systems moving the resources to market. Transportation systems like pipelines require rights of way.  Rights of way and subsistence hunting and fishing and agricultural areas very often overlap proposed pipeline routes. All stakeholders care about the safety of pipeline operations.  For sure, all stakeholders wish to maximize their own income streams.   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 24th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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7-23-15

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (NGP Photo), yesterday issued the following response to the Interior Department’s approval of two conditional permits to Shell to resume its exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea: “Today’s approval by the Department of Interior of the permits Shell needs to resume drilling in the Chukchi Sea is good news for Alaska and our country. However, it is not the final regulatory hurdle Shell faces and it is important that the agencies continue to work in good faith and in a timely fashion to complete the remaining [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:13-09:00July 23rd, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Progress, OCS|0 Comments
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7-22-15 Arrogant EPA Refuses To Testify On ESA

"Investment In Arctic Is Paramount", by Anne Seneca, President, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska Politico: House GOP launches fresh salvo at EPA on endangered species By Elana Schor House Natural Resources Committee Republicans say EPA is snubbing their request to testify next week on whether it abided by Endangered Species Act rules that the GOP hopes will provide a new weapon against the Obama administration’s power plant emissions rules. The House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop’s species protection probe began in the spring, when Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe admitted that EPA [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:13-09:00July 22nd, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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7-21-15 Presidential Candidate Kasich Wants High Oil Taxes To Cover Ohio Overspending

Calgary Herald by Alicjaa Siekierska.  Carbon & dust emissions from oil sands activity stimulates forest growth.  “...a pillar in President Obama's energy legacy of failure.”   -Congressman Rob  Bishop    *     *     * BP Hires Vets   Consumer Energy Alliance Relevant Energy Links   Commentary: Today, 2-term Ohio Governor John Kasich announced his presidential bid (Photo credit: LA Times).  He began his term with a multi-billion dollar deficit and now enjoys a $2 billion surplus.   But Kasich's embrace of Medicaid could put more pressure on the budget every [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:13-09:00July 21st, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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7-20-15 BC LNG Moves Forward

Vancouver Sun by Dirk Meissner.   Commentary: Could the Alaska gas pipeline/LNG project's need for fiscal certainty be modeled after BC's attempt to provide a 25 year window of certainty for investors? Alaska Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) has pledged to seek a fiscal certainty for Alaska's gas.  But we have observed that since the major producers own both oil and gas facilities in the state, providing certainty for only the gas still leaves investors vulnerable to predatory taxation. Unfortunately Alaska has a long history of increasing or enacting oil taxes [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 20th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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7-18-15

Point of personal privilege: We pay homage to our late friend, Mike Burns (NGP Photo).  This obituary is very well done.    ADN report.  -dh Petroleum News by Kristen Nelson.  The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority will keep Fairbanks Natural Gas management in place as it works toward expanding natural gas service in Fairbanks-North Pole area. In a July 10 submission of supplemental information regarding its application to acquire a controlling interest in.... Petroleum News by Gary Park.  British Columbia Premier Christy Clark wants to make real history in the provincial legislature [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 18th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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7-17-15

Journal of Commerce by Elwood Brehmer.   Three of the state’s mega projects are back in business, at least temporarily, after Gov. Bill Walker’s administration partially lifted an administrative order halting spending on the development work. State officials overseeing the Knik Arm bridge, the Susitna-Watana dam and the Juneau access road all got the go-ahead to continue work with existing funding in memos sent out by Office of Management and Budget Director Pat Pitney July 6. Each of the memos notes that once authorized work is completed and immediate goals [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:44-09:00July 17th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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7-16-15 PLF Takes On WOTUS, Thank Goodness!

After filing objections to the EPA and Corps of Engineers' proposed "waters of the United States" rule in 2014, Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys have fulfilled their pledge to challenge the rule in court. Yesterday, PLF filed a lawsuit on behalf of several agricultural organizations and property owners because the regulation expands the scope of the Clean Water Act to an unprecedented extent, violating the terms of the Act and the Constitution's limits on federal authority.  In this new Courting Liberty podcast, PLF Principal Attorney M. Reed Hopper discusses this new [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 16th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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