9-16-15

  Today's relevant energy links from Consumer Energy Alliance: Dave, I’ve been meaning to tell you for a long time that your website is a great source of information on what is happening in the industry in our part of the world. - Tom Brennan (NGP Photo, autographing his book, Snowflake Rebellion) Bloomberg Business: New Yorkers Reap Lower Power Bills From Shale Gas Bonanza The shale boom has reached the Big Apple. Wholesale on-peak electricity prices for Manhattan and its four neighboring boroughs averaged $40.99 a megawatt-hour since the start of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 16th, 2015|Reader Comment|0 Comments
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9-15-15 “Tell It Like It Is”

Yesterday: LNG Prospects Lower.  Now: Hawaii, NOT a Prospective Customer For BC and Alaska Yes, Low Oil Prices Also Affect Service Industries and Their Thousands of Employees and Sub Contractors! EPA Alert Calgary's New "Tell It Like It Is Leader" Big OCS News Today: New Moratorium! Reader Commentary, Below, and Our Reaction Commentary, "Telling it like it is" carries with it a responsibility for diligence and judgment: We are honored to receive so many calls and emails every week, over many years, from readers throughout the world.  We hardly ever make [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 15th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-14-15 LNG Prospects Fading

See Sunday's TAPS Pioneer Op-Ed by Dave Haugen (NGP Photo-L) *     *    * Anchodrage Daily Planet, "Dealing with a $3.5 billion deficit", by Tom Brennan (NGP Photo) ALASKAN PIPE & LNG POLITICS / ECONOMICS.  ADN.  In a tense marathon meeting that one lawmaker likened to an “inquisition,” Republican legislators blasted the state’s gas line team after learning that a lack of agreement between the state and its partners in the massive Alaska LNG project may preclude a special session this fall, possibly leading to costly delays.    CANADIAN PIPE & LNG [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 14th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-13-15 Gas Pipeline Pioneer Haugen Pioneered Oil Pipe Too

Washington Examiner Op-Ed by David Haugen (NGP Photo) I am proud of my role in shaping Alaskan oil and gas development since the 1970s and in helping to produce "Pipeline Pioneers," a new film series available at arcticopportunity.org about the people who helped build one of the country's greatest and most critical engineering landmarks — the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). The series depicts TAPS through my eyes and those of four other Alaska pioneers — Dave Norton, Scott Harter, Kathleen Dalton and state representative Benjamin Nageak. Since its construction in the 1970s, [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:55:25-09:00September 13th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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9-12-15

    Calgary Herald Wildrose critical of hiring of pipeline critic in premier's office Calgary Herald More from Darcy Henton, Calgary Herald ... Wildrose is slamming the hiring of a pipeline opponent in the premier's office. ... Marcella Munro into a senior communications role in the premier's office in Calgary a sign of ... “Hiring senior staff with views on our oil and gas sector that stand in direct contrast to ...

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 12th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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9-11-15 “Never Forget”

Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) today ordered all Alaska state flags to be lowered tomorrow in honor of Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, which is an annual recognition of the events that took place on September 11, 2001. This action follows a proclamation by President Barack Obama to lower all United States flags in honor of those who were killed on September 11, 2001. Comment:   We don't wish to spoil an otherwise poignant remembrance day.  We do wish to urge our public officials to honor remembrance [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 11th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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9-10-15 Once again–you read it here first!

We love the Energy Producing States Coalition's advocacy for domestic energy and join the group in welcoming a new legislative member, Pennsylvania's Representative Pam Snyder (Photo).  -dh Calgary Herald, by Geoffrey Morgan.Suncor Energy Inc.’s Steve Williams blasted the “stupidity” of pipeline politics in the U.S. and Canada.... Our Readers will be interested in Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) Sunday, Anchorage Daily Planet review of the role Exxon, ARCO, Tom, Hank Rosenthal and others -- including your author -- played in Alaska Waterfowl enhancement policies of the 1970s and 80s.  -dh Exxon CEO Rex [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 10th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-9-15

ADN.  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s administration plans to propose reducing the state’s $600 million oil and gas tax credit program, cutting back on breaks to industry that are no longer needed, Revenue Commissioner Randy Hoffbeck said Tuesday. In a meeting in Anchorage of a state Senate working group on tax credits, Hoffbeck told assembled lawmakers and industry representatives that state payments aimed at reviving a flagging natural gas industry in Cook Inlet had worked. There are no longer fears of a shortage in Anchorage and elsewhere in Southcentral Alaska, he [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00September 9th, 2015|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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9-8-15 ConocoPhillips Plans New NPR Well Sites

Important Tax Credit Hearing Occuring Today In Alaska: Details Here Larry Persily's relevant energy links Juneau Empire Op-Ed by Caroline Higgins (NGP Photo).   Last week, Alaskans welcomed President Obama to our state.   ...opportunity to let the world know how we Alaskans feel about developing our plentiful natural resources.... Here is the perspective we Alaskans need to remember and share: Alaskans support resource development in huge numbers. Just last year, Consumer Energy Alliance surveyed Alaskans for their views on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. They found that [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 8th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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9-7-15 BLM Cleanup Progress: Thanks to an Alaska Senator and Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

BLM completes Cape Simpson cleanup work - 09/06/2015 (Login to read Full story) The federal Bureau of Land Management said Sept. 1 that it has completed cleanup of Cape Simpson legacy well sites in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. BLM said it facilitated removal of surface debris through an inter-agency agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps contracte.... Read the 'rest of the story', beginning in 2012 and long before....  -dh

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00September 8th, 2015|Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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9-6-15

Quitting headlong dive - 09/06/2015 (Full story) Just days after Alberta Premier Rachel Notley refused to back away from fast-tracking a royalty review and corporate tax hike her government has done an about face. After meeting with more than 1,000 industry leaders since it was elected four months ago, Notley's left-wing New Democratic Party admin....   10% Conoco cuts to hit Alaska - 09/06/2015 (Login to read Full story) ConocoPhillips is proposing to cut some 10 percent of its workforce. The impact is expected to be within that 10 percent range in Alaska, ConocoPhillips Alaska spokeswoman [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00September 7th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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9-5-15

Petroleum News.  August ANS production down 11% from July - 09/06/2015 (Login to read Full story) Alaska North Slope production averaged 418,127 barrels per day in August, down 10.6 percent from a July average of 467,922, with all fields down substantially Aug. 21-22 during Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.'s second planned maintenance shutdown of the summer. Alyeska spokeswoman Michelle Egan said w....

By |2016-03-13T03:56:30-09:00September 6th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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9-4-15

ADN by Nathanial Herz.  Several lawmakers said this week that Alaska Gov. Bill Walker may schedule a special legislative session in late October to deal with the development of a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope. “It looks like the governor may be interested in calling a special session around the 20th of October,” Sen. Gary Stevens, (NGP Photo), said in an interview.

By |2016-03-13T03:56:30-09:00September 4th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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9-3-15 Shell’s Arctic Exploration Bodes Well For Alaska!

What’s at stake for Alaska in Shell’s Arctic drilling program?   Reader Op-Ed By Paul Fuhs (NGP Photo) A lot has been said by many people about Shell’s Arctic drilling program but I have yet to see a real analysis of what it would mean for Alaska and our people. Some have said :  “Well, it is in Federal waters so we won’t get anything out of it.”  I just don’t believe that is true.  Here are some of the direct benefits we will receive if Shell is successful in [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 3rd, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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