Calgary Herald Duboyce: TransCanada is committed to safety and the environment Calgary Herald The Energy East pipeline's original route is pictured as TransCanada officials speak during a 2013 news conference inCalgary. Jeff McIntosh / THE ...
Gas offers have come in - 08/16/2015 (Full story) Petroleum News by Alan Bailey. The Interior Energy Project, an Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority initiative to bring affordable energy to Fairbanks and the Alaska Interior, has passed a couple of milestones, as the project team assesses bids for the supply of gas from the Cook Inlet basin and proposals for the sh.... (Comment: We remain wary about the reality of Walker Administration efforts to block a free enterprise sale of LNG facilities so that politicians can force feed natural gas [...]
Fairbanks News Miner. Doyon, Limited announced plans to drill a third well in the Nenana basin in summer 2016. The wells are a continuation of oil and gas exploration that began in 2005, Doyon President and CEO Aaron Schutt (NGP Photo) said. The new well will be called Toghotthele No. 1. It follows Doyon's successful 3D seismic program in 2014, which identified several potential drill sites in the 32,000-acre area about 50 miles west of Fairbanks. "We are very excited to begin the next phase of our exploration program," Schutt said (More....) [...]
Oil Pro by Joseph Triepke. Last week, the Securities Exchange Commission said that Miller Energy's former CFO and CEO overstated the value of its holdings by upwards of $400mm after acquiring its O&G properties in Alaska in late-2009 for $2.5mm. Neither executive is still with the company. Miller Energy's questionable past appears to be a case study of how not to run an E&P company. ADN/Arctic by Erica Martinson. Shell has a strained relationship with environmental groups over its Arctic drilling plans, but the company has long advocated for a price on [...]
CBC.ca Tom Mulcair book launch interrupted by Energy East pipeline protesters CBC.ca Mulcair was forced Sunday to address comments she made onCBC News Network's Power & Politics, where she said curbing oilsands production ... Calgary Heral Alliance Pipeline says it could take several days to burn off hydrogen sulphide gas Calgary Herald CALGARY — The operator of a major Canada-U.S. natural gas pipeline that has been shut down since Friday says it could take several days to burn ...
Point of personal privilege: We pause to remember our late friend, Frank Gifford, also a friend of Alaska. (Photo with Kathy Lee Gifford, by Bruce Glikas / FilmMagic). See "Today News". Rick Mystrom and Rick Nerland had kindly asked me to join the non profit board of our Anchorage Organizing Committee (AOC) for the Winter Olympics in the late 1980s. In my volunteer board role, I served a 'Television Commissioner', charged with developing relationships with and support from American television and radio networks who could someday compete for Anchorage Olympic broadcast rights. [...]
Calgary Herald Federal election campaign reflects change in oil and gas since PM Harper's 2006 election Calgary Herald Access to markets through new pipelines became the mantra of industry and ... The world – the oil and gas industry included – has changed and what ...
CBC.ca Alliance shuts down gas pipeline in Western Canada CBC.ca Alliance Pipeline has shut down a natural gas pipeline in Western Canada after poisonous hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas got into the system.
Comment: Alaskans beware. To the extent that the Walker administration socializes industry in Alaska, to that extent will free enterprise forces be replaced with political forces. With a Municipally regulated (i.e. political appointees, Mayor and Assembly become regulators) natural gas utility supported by a subsidized state agency controlled by the Governor corruption of public utility regulation in Fairbanks is inevitable. -Dave Harbour, former Chairman, Regulatory Commission of Alaska. ADN by Alex DeMarban. The state attorney general has rejected an effort by a Hilcorp subsidiary to acquire an LNG [...]
CBC.ca Energy East pipeline opposed by Anishinaabe Water Walkers CBC.ca Energy East pipeline opposed by Anishinaabe Water Walkers ... opposition to TransCanada's plan to convert the natural gas pipeline to transp....
Today's very relevant energy clips for NGP readers: The Maritime Executive: A Vote for Responsible Arctic Development *David Holt Q&A (NGP Photo) Shell’s Arctic drilling is expected to begin soon. MarEx spoke to David Holt, President of the U.S. Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), to discuss what it means for Alaska and the nation's Lower 48 states. Jobkeeper Alliance: Consumer Group, Organizations, Elected Officials and Regulators Voice Concern on EPA “Clean Power Plan” *CEA Mention The American economy is literally energized by one of the world’s most complex and efficient machines – the nation’s [...]
Alaska's Governor Bill Walker wants 51% ownership in Alaska gasline/LNG project. See Alaska Journal of Commerce article by Tim Bradner.
Calgary Herald Energy East pipeline will cost more than $12 billion, TransCanada says Calgary Herald For two thirds of the way, TransCanada aims to convert an underused natural gaspipeline and then build all new pipe through Quebeck and....
Petroleum News, by Steve Quinn. Mike Navarre has two years to help the Kenai Peninsula Borough find its place and role in the prospective AKLNG project. The Democratic mayor understands those limits, yet he says he doesn’t want the borough to be caught off guard if the project gets under way when thousands of new workers descend....
