Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.  Federal regulators have dismissed the Alaska Gasline Port Authority’s application for a license to export natural gas to Asian markets, calling the application “deficient.”

Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin.  No matter which way you look at it, the energy sector can’t seem to bridge the communication gap. At least, that’s the conclusion from a study co-authored by professors Michal Moore and Andre Turcotte and released last week by the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.

Please see today’s EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, here!

Alaska Dispatch by Pat Forgey.  JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell is proposing billions of dollars in tax cuts for the state’s biggest oil companies, but the adjustments he’s called for to the oil tax law involve more radical changes than just the amount of revenue lost to the state.

Houston Chronicle.  Offshore unit draws lawmaker’s scrutinyCongressman Doc Hastings, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, DOI

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
 
A top congressional Republican wants to know more about a new Interior Department team dedicated to rooting out wrongdoing by companies drilling offshore and the government officials who police them.  The man behind the push, Rep. Doc Hastings, (NGP Photo), heads the House Natural Resources Committee and is a frequent critic of the Obama administration’s management of offshore drilling.