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7-10-15 “Alaskan and Canadian Leaders: Investors Matter.”

Could Saskatchewan become more oil investor friendly than Alberta? Alaska Support Industry Alliance Analysis Our Commentary (Reference today's articles below) Alaska and Canada Pay Attention: To investors, costs matter and costs include the cost of taxes and royalties and regulatory requirements and reneging on tax credits.   Go ahead and demonize the goose that lays golden eggs.  Try to popularize the 'taking' of more private wealth for public redistribution using tired, old and untrue "fair share" arguments.  Sure, you'll rip off investors for a short period of time but you will deter [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 10th, 2015|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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7-9-15

Washington Post Magazine, by Julia Duin.  ... This was Alice Rogoff (NGP Photo), wife of billionaire David Rubenstein and a former Washington business executive turned owner and publisher of Alaska’s largest newspaper. Rogoff had spent nine days piloting her single-engine Cessna 206 from village to village as her reporters covered 70-plus mushers crossing the state.   ...    Rogoff’s husband was casting about for a post-White House career. In 1987, he co-founded the Carlyle Group, which would become one of the largest private equity management firms in the world. One [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 9th, 2015|Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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7-8-15 Larry Persily’s Outstanding Gas Pipeline/LNG Project Essay

Pipeline Building Is A Choreography Of Coordinated Steps By Larry Persily  lpersily@kpb.us July 7, 2015 Other recent Persily work   (This update, provided by Larry Persily (NGP Photo) of the Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor’s office, is part of an ongoing effort to help keep the public informed about the Alaska LNG project.) The Alaska LNG project is a planning and coordinating effort of immense proportions. Not surprising when you consider that the pipeline construction alone requires piecing together about 115,000 40-foot-long sections in precise order, in rough terrain, in remote locations — and with [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 8th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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7-7-15 Judge Clears The Way For 2015 Arctic Exploration

Click on one of the Alaska Oil and Gas Congress public service ads above or in the right column for a Northern Gas Pipelines conference discount (We receive no financial incentive for providing this information.  -dh) We compliment Congress for denying the EPA funds to create new and harmful, anti-energy / anti-consumer regulatory programs. This Afternoon's Release courtesy of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance and the Alaska Oil & Gas Association:  "Arctic Exploration Program Moves Forward": In a blow to environmental groups that file lawsuits designed to delay or halt [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 7th, 2015|Arctic Policy, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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7-6-15 Read and Weep!

Bloomberg story and video on oil price trends, by Asjylyn Loder and Bradley Olson  READ AND WEEP.  The insurance protecting shale drillers against plummeting prices has become so crucial that for one company, SandRidge Energy Inc., payments from the hedges accounted for a stunning 64 percent of first-quarter revenue. Now the safety net is going away. The insurance that producers bought before the collapse in oil -- much of which guaranteed minimum prices of $90 a barrel or more -- is expiring. As they do, investors are left to wonder how these companies will [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00July 6th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-22-15

Edmonton Journal by Ryan Jackson.  Meet the new boss, in some ways remarkably the same as the old boss. At times, almost word-for-word. With the NDP government’s first throne speech Monday, Premier Rachel Notley began disappointing the party’s core supporters in the environmental community by championing exports of Alberta oil to global markets as part of a Canadian energy strategy.

By |2016-03-13T03:54:15-09:00July 6th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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7-5-15

Petroleum News.  Officials from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard have met in Juneau to discuss Arctic oil spill preparedness and the coordination of oil spill incident management strategies, BSEE said June 24. BSEE Alaska Region Director Mark Fesmire and Rear Adm. Dan Abel,....

By |2016-03-13T03:55:05-09:00July 5th, 2015|Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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7-4-15

Petroleum News.  Gov. Bill Walker said June 29 that the state will join North Dakota and 10 other states in a challenge to the recently finalized “waters of the United States” rule. WOTUS, adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, attempts to define what waters are covered....

By |2016-03-13T03:55:05-09:00July 5th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-3-15

Petroleum News.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a letter of authorization, allowing the minor, unintended disturbance of walrus and polar bears during Shell’s planned exploration drilling in the Chukchi Sea this year. Shell has been moving its drilling fleet north in preparation for its drilling progr....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 3rd, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Progress, OCS|0 Comments
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7-2-15

The Settlement Agreement described below is so historical in the annals of American energy that we are preserving the entire content below (with links) in our archives for your future reference.  -dh Five years on from the Deepwater Horizon accident and spill in 2010, BP has reached agreements in principle to settle all federal and state claims arising from the event. BP today announced that its US Upstream subsidiary, BP Exploration and Production Inc (BPXP) has executed the agreements with the US federal government and five Gulf Coast states. The [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:45-09:00July 2nd, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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7-1-15 Alaska Governor Reneges On Oil Tax Credit

Our Commentary ADN by Pat Forgey.   Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) announced Tuesday that he had signed state operating and capital budgets, approving $9.8 billion in spending sought by the Legislature but vetoing a possible $200 million worth of controversial oil tax credits.      ... RELATED:  Dispute over oil tax credits plays out in shadow of Alaska's budget deadlock "It is apparent the current oil and gas production tax credit system is unsustainable," Walker said in a letter Monday to Senate President Kevin Meyer, (NGP Photo), telling him of [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:43-09:00July 1st, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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6-29-15

    Calgary Herald TransCanada: Alberta's tougher CO2 rules bolster case for Keystone XL Calgary Herald The Calgary-based pipeline builder outlined its rationale in a letter sent Monday ... In May, Ottawa announced it aims to cut Canada's greenhouse gas ...

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00July 1st, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-30-15

    Calgary Herald TransCanada: Alberta's tougher CO2 rules bolster case for Keystone XL Calgary Herald The Calgary-based pipeline builder outlined its rationale in a letter sent Monday ... In May, Ottawa announced it aims to cut Canada's greenhouse gas ...

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 30th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-26-15 Murkowski Highlights Importance of Alaska’s Energy Resources

AJOC.  Jason Walsh has been appointed to lead the State Pipeline Coordinator’s Office, effective June 1. Walsh directs the office tasked with developing and maintaining large-diameter oil and gas pipeline right-of-way leases and lease compliance efforts for multiple pipelines, including the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.  Murkowski Highlights Importance of Alaska’s Energy Resources Energy Panel Chairman Calls for Upgrade of Nation’s Energy Policies Washington, D.C. – In the final video introducing the Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska., calls for an upgrade to our nation’s [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 26th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-25-15 Uphill Road For An Alaska LNG Project

It's An Uphill Road For An Alaska LNG Project Whether most Alaskans appreciate it or not, the best hope for a successful, Alaska LNG project is that Alaska's largest producers support it.  Today, we analyze why that so. by Dave Harbour Alaskans have consistently supported higher taxes on Alaska's oil companies and higher spending on social services -- with some exceptions.   The Alaska tax and spend model is not unlike the model employed nationally, in Washington D.C., except national leaders are capable of spending more than they take in by merely [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 25th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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