Edmonton Journal by Dina O'meara. Alberta could see its first commercial carbon capture and storage project as soon as 2015 if Shell Canada’s application for its Quest project is approved by provincial regulators — and the energy giant’s board. Seventh Annual Oil & Gas Congress Is Coming To Anchorage In September
About Shell In Alaska: A Great Record, Great Potential Latest Statistic Yearbook of Upstream, Downstream and Midstream Operations In Former Soviet Union Countries! Globe & Mail. Floyd Roland (NGP Photo) is running out of time. Come fall, the Premier of the Northwest Territories will be looking for work after just a single term in the big chair. It’s a ticking clock at odds with his ambitious agenda as he scrambles to push several high-stakes projects to completion, each unfinished by premiers past. They include a new deal on resource rights, [...]
Alaska Oil and Gas Congress Right Around the Corner! AJOC by Tim Bradner. Plans for a 24-inch natural gas pipeline built from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska are moving forward a step at a time. A 430-mile state right-of-way was granted for the $7.52 billion project July 25 and a draft environmental impact statement is due out in August, Dan Fauske, president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., a state corporation, told state legislators in a briefing. ADN editorial writer suggests that, "patience may be a trap, not a [...]
(You probably read it here first; the next day the AP reported it locally. We are often first to report breaking energy news of interest to our readers--in these pages and via more immediate email alerts for the more relevant items. More than half the time, the tip comes from an observent reader. We lament just beginning the category "You Read It Here First", today, since these pages are filled with at least scores of such breaking news reports to our readers. But, better late than not at all. [...]
...today we take a break. We are honored to be providing photographic support and sponsorship to the Clare2Clare fashion show and fundraiser again this year. There are a very few seats left, for interested, local readers. Here is the program. See a few of our photos from last year, here, and some of our attempts to capture the exceptional qualities of a highly accomplished artist, model and professional administrator, Kodiak born Alaska Native, LaRita Laktonen, here. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) released the following statement after [...]
Peninsula Clarion by Molly Dischner. Homer Electric Association announced last week that it will buy the Bernice Lake Power Plant in Nikiski from Chugach Electric Association for $11.8 million. The purchase is conditional on the Regulatory Commission of Alaska agreeing to amortize the purchase price over several years, HEA’s Joe Gallagher said in a statement. That means that the cost of the plant would get spread out over several years, so that current members aren’t stuck with the full cost immediately.
Alaska Gasline Development Corporation's Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline Project 7-1-11 Report to the Legislature As Required Under Enabling Legislation, HB 369 Report and observations: Yesterday the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) President and CEO, Dan Fauske (NGP Photo), told legislators that the Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline (ASAP) project would be good for, "...all of Alaska, not just the urban areas," and predicted that with timely legislative funding natural gas could be flowing from Prudhoe Bay through Interior Alaska to the Cook Inlet area by 2019. AGDC is a public corporation organized [...]
TIME TO TAKE ALASKA OUT OF THE ICEBOX - Wall Street Journal TODAY: Another Important Deadline; here is how to easily comment! Your OCS comment by TODAY's deadline makes the legal record more supportive of reasonable OCS exploration for Alaska and the benefit of all Americans. A reasonable OCS program will help save Alaska's economy and protect America's economic recovery and national security. Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable! Meanwhile, here are comments from Jason Brune (NGP Photo),Bob Hoffman, Kaye Laughlin and myself. Others who submitted [...]
7-24-11. Today we decided to begin noting a sampling of the many instances wherein others use our photos as our attribution policy requires. While we have noted literally hundreds of such instances in the past, we did not think until recently to compliment them through this posting for using our images appropriately. The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step and today we take that step. -dh Below we shall provide examples in order, beginning with the most recent, when we think to do so: 7-28-11. Clare [...]
Monday: Another Important Deadline; here is how to easily comment! Your OCS comment by Monday's deadline makes the legal record more supportive of reasonable OCS exploration for Alaska and the benefit of all Americans. A reasonable OCS program will help save Alaska's economy and protect America's economic recovery and national security. Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable! -dh Commentary: Last week, the Obama Administration released its quarterly BOEMRE Ocean Science magazine (.pdf here - NGP Photo, BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich). It describes how it [...]
Monday: Another Important Deadline! OCS Comment Deadlines Continue Like Endless Ocean Waves (NGP Photo-below) Determined To Erode Our Shores. But we cannot give up. Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable! We have just intercepted this comment from Kaye Laughlin, a great American! Commentary: Stop....please take 3 minutes now to send in a comment on the revised exploration plan (EP) for the the Beaufort Sea leases. Shell's EP has already gone through an extensive review and approval process back in 2009. BOEMRE is again asking [...]
The CBC report suggests Korea may purchase Shell's Mackenzie Delta assets! Enjoy the art of our Tundra Comics friend, Chad Carpenter! Ziff Energy's Bill Gwozd responded to our editorial material yesterday: Ziff Energy still has Alaska and Mackenzie Delta flowing in our models – both are required. The key point you may wish to share with your readers is these projects have a 25 year life starting 2020/25 and ending 2050 ish. So the questions the readers may wish to ask the politicians is what gas supply will be flowing in North America [...]
Geek note: We lament your opinion of us when--as in this morning's alert email (subscribe above right)--the automatic editing program substitutes an "it's" when we actually typed "its". This is not to say we don't make mistakes, but we prefer to take blame for our own mistakes and not for our robot's. Actually, we shouldn't blame our robot either, since it's our responsibility to proof read, not its. -dh Larry Persily's NARUC Impressions When we encountered the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily (NGP stock photo), in Los Angeles [...]
Commissioner Tony Clark, NARUC President NARUC PROGRAM We had the pleasure at noon today of introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger and think our readers will find his presentation unusual and compelling: Los Angeles, Ca. -- The NARUC program yesterday kicked off at the J.W. Marriott's Dimond Ballroom here with keynote presentations by Peabody Coal's Chairman and CEO Gregory Boyce (NGP Photo-L) and Chesapeake Energy's Aubrey McClendon (NGP Photo). The two CEOs exposed the continuing tension between fossil fuel cousins: coal and natural gas. Boyce took the high road, [...]
Notes From The Road: Los Angeles We see many old friends and energy leaders at the meetings we attend with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOCC) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). Earlier this summer we were with IOGCC in Bismarck, during the "Great 2011 Flood". This week with NARUC in Los Angeles with "Carmageddon" erroneously predicted, and will hear from Paul Wenger, President of the California Farm Bureau Federation and from Aubrey McClendon, Chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Company and Greg Boyce, Chairman and [...]
