2-2-14

By |2016-03-13T03:49:36-09:00February 2nd, 2014|Uncategorized|

From the office of Congressman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) TODAY:  What the President Failed to Mention in His Address On Tuesday, January 28th, President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address. “The president spoke a lot about his ‘year of action’, but what is significant in his speech is what he failed to mention,”​ said Hastings on Tuesday following the president's speech. “There was no mention tonight of the thousands of employees who have lost their employer-provided health care coverage or had their take home pay cut as [...]

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2-1-14

By |2016-03-13T03:49:06-09:00February 1st, 2014|Uncategorized|

CBC.  Ever since Stephen Harper called American approval of the $5.4-billion pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast a "no-brainer" back in September 2011, a lot has been riding on the eventual vindication of the prime minister's thinking.

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1-31-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 31st, 2014|Uncategorized|

Houston Chronicle.  ConocoPhillips completed its first full year as an independent producer with a 74 percent hike in fourth-quarter earnings, driven largely by sales of overseas assets as the company turns its focus to North American shale. (Here is the 2013 fourth quarter Alaska earnings review. “The fourth quarter of 2013 is similar to what we have seen historically under ACES where we pay about twice as much in taxes as we keep,” said Bob Heinrich, vice president finance, ConocoPhillips Alaska.  “The recent oil tax reform passed by the Legislature, which [...]

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1-30-14 Shell Delays 2014 Arctic Exploration

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 30th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

Alaska Dispatch Commentary by Craig Richards, advisor to Bill Walker (NGP Photo-l), candidate for governor.  Gov. Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo) new gas pipeline approach reminds me of Edmund Burke’s admonishment that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas today released its annual Five-Year Program of Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales for the period 2014 to 2018.  Governor proposes royalty oil sale extension for Tesoro. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today reiterated her call for the Obama administration [...]

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1-29-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 30th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Oil and Gas Journal, by Christopher E. 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. The HOA is subject to public review by the state legislature this session. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP [...]

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1-28-14 Marcus K. Singletary, Dearly Departed – State of The Union Is Threatened From Within

By |2019-11-19T10:55:03-09:00January 28th, 2014|AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Personal|

As our faithful readers prepare for tonight's State of the Union Speech, we also await rationale justifying the continuing overreaching jurisdiction of the White House.  Please review our editorial written two years ago.  We briefed readers on a big change: this president was altering the authority to take over the economy.  Former administrations planned to exercise broad economic powers only in the face of a national emergency.  The current White House added a provision enabling it to take dictatorial powers in 'peacetime' as well.  Perhaps a reading of our Executive [...]

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1-27-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 27th, 2014|Arctic Policy|

Current Issues: Petroleum News, North of 60 Mining News, The Producers Last week, we reluctantly took a stand, criticizing the action of a Member of Alaska's Congressional Delegation.  We said, We do find it unsettling that a Member of Alaska's Congressional Delegation -- or any Member of Congress -- would become a Member of Congress, swear to uphold the Constitution, and then deny the due process guarantees ....  How could any lawmaker or administrator of law try to deny protections of the law and Constitution to any citizen? Energy Daily.  A [...]

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1-26-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 26th, 2014|AGIA, Interstate Gas, Personal|

CBC News.  TransCanada investigating cause of pipeline blast.   Parnell's LNG project challenged by rival Walker and some ...Anchorage Daily News - Sean Parnell's newest proposal for bringing Alaska's North Slope natural gas to commercial markets finds a biting .... Sarah Palin's gas line legislation, ExxonMobil's Marty Massey testified "we are willing to take geologic risks, we are ...   Point of personal privilege: ADN, Now in its 25th season of hosting concerts, plays, musicals and other spectaculars in its three main halls, the PAC has undergone regular renovation and repair over the years, most famously a $5 [...]

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1-25-14 Parnell Introduces Gasline Legislation

By |2016-03-13T03:42:37-09:00January 25th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

ADN.  Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday introduced legislation to move ahead on his proposal to make the state a financial partner with Alaska's oil producers and pipeline company TransCanada in a liquefied natural gas project. The state already has signed commercial agreements with the industry players, and Senate Bill 138 aims to put that framework into law. The 49-page measure calls for a new subsidiary of the public Alaska Gasline Development Corporation to own shares in an LNG plant and marine terminal proposed for Nikiski where the liquefied gas would [...]

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1-23-14 – Rule of Law Comment From “On the Road” Washington D.C.

By |2019-03-17T08:30:48-09:00January 23rd, 2014|Commentary, Pebble Project & Rule of Law, Rule Of Law, Sue & Settle|

A Pebble Tossed In The Pond... ...does it simply produce ripples--or a tsunami threatening to ruin the rule of law? by Dave Harbour Ibrahim was the Lebanese cab driver who picked my son and me up at Washington's Reagan International Airport yesterday and gifted us with his view of America. We now see that U.S.. Senator Mark Begich (NGP Photo) has decided to oppose due process and the rule of law. We have not criticized Begich or anyone else for not personally supporting a particular natural resource project. We do find it [...]

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1-22-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 22nd, 2014|AGIA, Arctic Policy|

Marine Link.  The Alaska LNG project is one of the largest export projects of its kind in the world. Alaska Support Industry Alliance Notice:  Event Invitation: Seating is LIMITED Anchorage Breakfast Meeting Speaker: Bill Hardham, Alaska Project Manager, Repsol (NGP Photo) Date:   January 23, 2014 Time:   07:00 AM - 08:00 AM Location:   The Petroleum Club, 3301 C Street Email:   info@alaskaalliance.com Date/Time Details:   Doors open at 6 a.m. Program starts at 7 a.m. Fees/Admission:   $20 per person Click Here for More Information   Here are this week's gas links from [...]

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1-21-14 Keep Alaska Competitive

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 21st, 2014|Alaska Taxes|

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 [...]

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1-20-14 – Alaskanomics Presents Alaskan Economic Forecast

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 20th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

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 [...]

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1-19-14 – More Gas Pipeline Chatter

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 19th, 2014|Uncategorized|

  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.         [...]

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