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1-21-14 Keep Alaska Competitive

We consider this matter of not repealing Alaska's oil tax reform legislation so important, that we reprint the following email message, sent this morning.  -dh Keep Alaska Competitive - Vote No on 1 January 21, 2014 Thank goodness we passed oil tax reform New law helps lower shortfall Alaska’s new oil tax law is already working for Alaska. Our budget deficit would be even larger had the new law not passed. Thanks to the loss of 200,000 barrels of production per day under the old tax policy called ACES, Alaska now [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 21st, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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1-20-14 – Alaskanomics Presents Alaskan Economic Forecast

Up Here, by Tim Edwards.  A road to Tuktoyaktuk...would open Canada up to its third coast, to the Northwest Passage and to vast stores of oil and gas....   Alaska Dispatch by Yereth Rosen (NGP Photo). Petroleum News by Eric Lidji.  The state is starting negotiations with MWH Americas Inc. to build a liquefied natural gas facility on the North Slope that would serve households across the Interior. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is reviewing Shell’s plans to finish the exploration well it started two years ago and drill [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 20th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-19-14 – More Gas Pipeline Chatter

  Despite Pipeline Progress, State Proceeds with Two Lines Alaska Public Radio Network - It starts with a gas treatment facility on the North Slope and ends at a liquefaction ... The Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) is a much smaller beast.   UPDATE 2-Alaska signs deal to free up natural gas for export Reuters - ... significant participation by AGDC and recognizes that AGDC will continue to pursue its ownAlaska Stand Alone Pipeline instate gasline project.   Alaska News Nightly: January 16, 2014 Alaska Public Radio Network - ... natural gas export line from the North Slope. But the government is also still moving ahead with their back-up plan, the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline.         [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 19th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-18-14

Oil & Gas Journal by Christopher Smith.  ExxonMobil Corp., BP PLC, ConocoPhillips, TransCanada Corp., Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC), and Alaska’s commissioners of natural resources and revenue have signed a heads of agreement (HOA) for the Alaska LNG Project, laying the commercial framework for development of an 800-mile natural gas pipeline to transport production from the Alaska North Slope (ANS) to a 15-18 million tonne/year LNG plant on its south-central coast.

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 19th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-17-14

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) has made if official: Alaska will explore taking an equity share in a large North Slope natural gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas project.  (See our earlier coverage, here.  -dh) At the Jan. 10 Alaska Support Industry Alliance’s annual “Meet Alaska” conference and tradeshow in Anchorage Parnell said the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has been authorized to participate financially in the project, estimated to cost $45 billion to $65 billion. The idea is similar to an [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:41:59-09:00January 17th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-16-14

  The Star, by John Spears.  If Canada fails to develop its oilsands now — and fails to build the pipelines to move it to market — the opportunity could vanish for decades, two industry executives warned Wednesday.  (Note: we continue to observe here that, from a gas marketing perspective, Alaska is in the same boat!  -dh) “Asia will figure out other sources to get supply from if they can’t get it from Canada,” Cenovus chief executive Brian Ferguson told a meeting of the Canadian Club. Cenovus is a major [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 16th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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1-15-14 BREAKING NEWS TODAY!!!

  The EPA released its final OVERREACHING REPORT today on an Alaska mining project, thumbing its nose at the rule of law.  Here is Senator Lisa Murkowski's response.  -dh   BPs Outlook Released Today: You Read It Here First State and Private Parties Sign LNG Project Commercial Agreements (Anchorage, AK) - Natural Resources Commissioner Joe Balash (NGP Photo), Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) President Dan Fauske (NGP Photo) announced today that they have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada Corp., regarding the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 15th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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1-14-14 Meet Alaska Part II

Meet Alaska Part II (Scroll Down For Part I.  Remember that we wish our archives to maintain the highest degree of accuracy.  Accordingly, we solicit reader responses: additions, corrections to anything included herein.) by Dave Harbour THIS MORNING IN WASHINGTON: You Read It Here First! U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today sent a letter to President Obama urging him to lift the prohibition on exporting crude oil produced in the United States. Doing so, Murkowski wrote, will allow American producers to access global markets, which will boost production, protect jobs, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 14th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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1-13-14 Alliance Is Forum For Energy – Government Communications

Governor's Announcement Underlines The Importance Of The Alliance's "Meet Alaska" and Other Energy Conferences Part I by Dave Harbour ADN by Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo).   For the first time in Alaska's history, we have the framework in place to build the Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on Alaska's terms and in Alaskans' interests. We have the necessary parties to make the Alaska LNG project go: three producers, a pre-eminent Arctic pipeline builder, an entity that will carry Alaskans' interests (Alaska Gasline Development Corp.) and state agencies responsible for royalties [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 13th, 2014|AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-12-14

ADN By Lisa Demer.  Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) on Friday announced that he was prepared to abandon the Palin-era natural gas pipeline law and set the state on a new path as an investor and partner in a long-dreamed-about natural gas project from the North Slope.  (We'll have more report and photos for our readers on Monday.  -dh)  

By |2016-03-13T03:41:25-09:00January 12th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-11-14

Juneau Empire.   Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) on Friday announced a new way forward on a long-hoped-for natural gas pipeline that includes scrapping the terms of a 2007 law he says no longer works well for the situation. (We'll have more news links, our own report and commentary for readers on Monday.  -dh)  

By |2016-03-13T03:40:49-09:00January 11th, 2014|AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-10-14

We are attending the Alliance's "Meet Alaska" conference today.  Reports will follow. Here is today's fresh link to Petroleum News Bakken!  Consider subscribing if you are not already doing so.  

By |2016-03-13T03:40:49-09:00January 10th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-9-14

TODAY, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee oversight hearing on “Obama Administration’s War on Coal: The Recent Report by the Office of the Inspector General.”  “We’re here today to discuss the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General’s new report on the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule. By now, everyone on this Committee is very familiar with this rewrite, and it has been the subject [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:43:28-09:00January 9th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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