See Governor Parnell's speech here, soon.     *      Governor Lauds 9th Circuit ruling on the Beaufort Sea 2007 oil and gas lease sale....   *     ADN, BP wraps up Nikiski GTL project.  See our original, 2001reporting on the Nikiski project (NGP Photo: Shane O'Leary, BP's 2001 GTL program manager, Kenai GTL Project), and check out our GTL archives.     *     Richard Peterson (NGP 2001 Photo-r) for Alaska Standard: Is Gas To Liquids technology economic now?

The Alaska Standard posted our FERC story yesterday.    *     Petroleum News Alaska's Alan Baily reviews Southcentral gas shortage.     *      KTUU.  "Enstar has contracted for all of our gas through 2010 and we don't expect there will be a problem," Mark Slaughter said. "But we were very close last year with deliverability and unless things change, with more production, more development, more drilling going on, there may not be enough gas being produced on the cold days."  And those cold days could be much colder if natural gas supplies [...]

  National Post, by Don Martin.  (Minister Jim Prentice, NGP Photo) is quick to stress that the park could not have been expanded without the partnership of the Deh Cho people, the same First Nation currently holding up the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline to ensure their environmental concerns are resolved. "The Nahanni is the Deh Cho's gift to Canada and it is Canada's gift to humanity," says Mr. Prentice. "They were very determined negotiators and their primary concern was always protection of the Nahanni watershed." Former grand chief Jim Antoine (NGP Photo), a key player in the park's expansion who [...]

  Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting, 8-21-09 Testimony: Dave Harbour, Retired Commissioner, Regulatory Commission of Alaska   Madam Chair and members of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force:   I am Dave Harbour, a retired Alaska regulatory commissioner.  I publish an energy website and serve as a volunteer member of the Consumer Energy Alliance Board of Advisors.    Since you wish to recommend Ocean policy that is based on science and facts I offer you these additional recommendations on ‘process’ as a former Alaskan regulator.    First, On Timing.   There are few [...]

 More Mackenzie Valley Oil and Gas History, by Peter McKenzie-Brown.      *     PNA by Alan Bailey.  TransCanada and Enstar are investigating the feasibility of establishing a Cook Inlet gas storage facility.    

Geology News.  Someone has been bombing natural gas pipelines in Northeastern British Columbia. Some believe that it is a case of eco-terrorism against EnCana Corporation.    *     News Miner, by Dermot Cole (My hero)--Both the TransCanada and Denali pipeline projects are now predicting that they will file for a certificate of public convenience and necessity with the federal government in October 2012.        *     New York Times by Clifford Krauss.  Natural gas prices plunged on Thursday to levels last reached in 2002 after an Energy Department report showed that the amount of gas in [...]