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6-24-15

 Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop commented this morning on a decision by the U.S. District Court of Wyoming to grant a stay of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) hydraulic fracturing rule. As a result of the decision, compliance with BLM's rule, which was originally intended to go into effect on June 24th, has been delayed until early August. “This is a rule based on fear not facts that favors Washington bureaucracy over progress and science. The DOE and the EPA have both found fracturing safe yet the propagandist [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 24th, 2015|Fracking|0 Comments
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6-23-15

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (NGP Photo), today advanced her efforts to lift the current ban on most U.S. crude oil exports... ...by releasing a report making the case that sanctions on Iranian oil should not be lifted without also lifting the current ban on U.S. crude oil exports. Thereport, Cross-Currents: Iranian Oil and the U.S. Export Ban, connects the dots between Obama Administration statements to support this argument. “We are letting Iran export its oil to markets that we prevent our own companies from accessing,” Murkowski said. “Any deal that lifts sanctions on [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:15-09:00June 23rd, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-21-15

    iFreePress.com (blog) Enbridge transfers liquid pipelines business in $30B deal – Business – CBC News iFreePress.com (blog) Enbridge Inc.is planning more investments in Canada's natural gas and power sector as well as pursuing global opportunities after freeing up cash ... Calgary Herald, opinion by Peter Breedyeld.   ... the royalty review should change its focus from getting more dollars per barrel, cubic foot or tonne, to getting fossil fuels out of the ground faster. This means giving royalty discounts to companies that can get new fossil fuel projects up and running faster, and streamlining the approval [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 22nd, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-20-15

Fraser Institute.  It’s been a difficult couple of weeks for Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The Santa Barbara oil spill has irritated already-sensitive public concern about oil pipelines. And as the pipeline’s review before the National Energy Board continues, several new reports commissioned by municipalities and groups in the region have expressed serious concerns about the potential effects of an oil spill. One study found that more than one million birds might be affected by a spill and 100,000 could possibly be killed as a result. Another assertedthat millions [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 20th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-19-15

Homer News by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo).  The state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has developed preliminary designs for “offtake” facilities that would allow communities to take natural gas from a large-diameter gas pipeline, if one were built. The designs were presented to AGDC’s board of directors at its June 11 meeting. CANADA'S ENERGY CITIZENS.  Canada’s oil and gas industry strives to continuously improve our safety record and the safe transportation of our energy products. When it comes to tanker safety we have a record to be proud of and we are [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00June 19th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-18-15 Why Shale Critics Have It Wrong

Oil Tax Commentary   WSJ.  Video interview, "Why shale critics are wrong." Calgary Herald by Stephen Ewart.  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. Recently, we commented on the onerous similarities between oil tax perspectives of Governors Kasich of Ohio and Palin of Alaska.   Alaska has just now, after nearly a decade of economic downturn, managed to repeal and overcome some of the damage done by Palin's populist, anti-oil tax policy. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:16-09:00June 18th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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6-17-15

Caelus Energy Alaska, LLC's Casey Sullivan (NGP Photo) reports the company has acquired a 75 percent working-interest ownership in NordAq Energy Inc.’s Tulimaniq leases located in Smith Bay on the North Slope of Alaska. Smith Bay is approximately 150 miles west of Prudhoe Bay and is well documented for its extensive hydrocarbon potential. Slightly more than 117,000 acres (gross), the 26 leases were assigned to Caelus Energy Alaska Smith Bay, LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of Caelus. As a result, Caelus becomes the operator and will lead the exploration drilling [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:16-09:00June 17th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-16-15 Is Alaska’s Governor Seeking Control Of The Ak LNG Project; Or, A Governent Owned Project?

Alaska Governor Bill Walker's June 8 Letter To AK LNG Participants Doesn't Exactly Radiate Cooperation  by Dave Harbour (In fairness, we wish to provide this comment from an anonymous reader.  -dh) Today, we ask if Alaska Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) is seeking cooperation with participants in the AK LNG project, or is he seeking to control those free market participants, or is he angling toward a separate, government owned project?   Here is a letter Walker sent yesterday to House and Senate resource committee leaders which included the copy of a letter [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:16-09:00June 16th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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6-15-15

Petroleum News.  Oil Patch Bits: Bell acquires operations manager - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) F. Robert Bell and Associates announced that Frank Thomas “FT” Bell has returned to the firm and will fill the new position of operations manager to further develop company goals. He will help Bell and Associates run more efficiently and grow as much as possible. In addition, he hopes Bell and Assoc....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:15-09:00June 15th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments
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6-14-15 Government Gas Distribution System Update

Petroleum News.  Request for proposals for Interior Gas Project due Aug. 3 - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) The Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority has issued a request for proposals for the Interior Energy Project, with proposals due Aug. 3, the first step in what the agency describes as a two-step public process. The goal of the Interior Energy Project is to provide low-cost energy to Interi....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:14-09:00June 15th, 2015|Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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6-13-15 EPA Retreats On Fracking

Petroleum News: EPA: No widespread harm from fracking - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said June 4 in a report that also warned of potential contamination of water supplies if safeguards are not maintained. A draft study issu....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:14-09:00June 15th, 2015|Federal Progress, Fracking|0 Comments
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6-12-15

KTVA VIDEO.  Alaska is on track to build the largest natural gas project in the world, according to the Alaska Gasline Development board. They say the U.S. Department of Energy’s license approval is big news — it means Alaska will be allowed to sell its liquefied natural gas (LNG) to any country in the world. Before, only countries on the United States’ free trade list were allowed. It will open the market into Asia, where countries like Japan are in desperate need of LNG. “Getting that, I can’t say enough, it’s a [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:14-09:00June 12th, 2015|Federal Progress, LNG|0 Comments
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6-11-15

  Tomorrow....     Commentator Thorpe Watson advises us to get ready for a medieval lifestyle.  This morning he emails us that: The G7 countries have declared war on hydrocarbon fuels (aka “fossil fuels”).    They have pledged to end the production and use of coal, oil, and gas by 2100. (The Telegraph  9 June 2015 “G7 pledges to end fossil fuel use this century”).   In other words, it is a pledge to commit economic suicide and to make us more vulnerable to natural climate change. It is a bleak [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:16-09:00June 11th, 2015|Arctic Policy, OCS, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-11-15

  Today's Energy Links From Consumer Energy Alliance: Town Hall: Follow the Trend: Support Energy Development  A new trio of polls shows what’ll be at the top of Americans’ minds when they hit the voting booths next year to elect a new commander-in-chief – energy production. Surveys administered recently by Consumer Energy Alliance show that more than 80 percent of voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – the first three primary states – said that candidates’ energy policy would be a key decision point on how they vote next [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:16-09:00June 11th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-10-15 EPA’s Latest! – Ohio’s Kasich an Energy Disaster?

  Friday We Wonder If Today's EPA Announcement Pleases Our Energy Readers: layer this on top of the WOTUS, Ocean Policy, ESA, CAA, CWA and War on Coal MATRIX!  Like the industrious Lilliputians did with Gulliver, is EPA -- under White House direction -- strapping the great American economy to the ground, immobilizing it, pretext to total control of the people and their free enterprises?  Frankly, the EPA's authoritarian use of rulemaking -- to us -- more resembles a well coordinated attack strategy than simple incompetence.   -dh (Ref. 2012 E.O.) RELEASED TODAY: BP's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:16-09:00June 10th, 2015|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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