Toronto Star: Keystone XL pipeline: How Canada's pipeline splits the US. The Toronto Star's Mitch Potter and Lucas Oleniuk drove 4,000 kilometres through Keystone country, from Montana to Texas, finding that the Canadian project has morphed into an oil-fired political drama - one so powerful it might take down President Obama. See the full story Saturday.
Petroleum News. As completion of Tesoro’s rail terminal to receive Bakken crude at its Washington refinery draws near, there’s talk within the company of shipping the light, sweet oil to Tesoro’s Alaska refinery where the company pays substantially more for both similar oil from the Cook Inlet basin and lower grade oil from the North Slope. If Cook Inlet basin oil explorers are successful, contract negotiations for their new oil could be tricky if Tesoro, the region’s primary oil buyer, plays its Bakken card. TransCanada Corp. expands in Westborough, Bizjournals.com. TransCanada Corp. said [...]
Note to Readers: We left the wonderful town of Vancouver, B.C. early yesterday after an IOGCC meeting and are this morning preparing for meetings in Charlotte, N.C. Meanwhile, Carl Portman (NGP Photo) of the Resource Development Council for Alaska summarized how Alaskans once again came together to testify in support of sustaining the 49th State Economy last Monday night. Readers may wish to review our last federal government hearing summary (Alaskans Rocked at Last Night's Hearing). Americans everywhere are aware of EPA efforts to expand jurisdiction. Here is a link to our [...]
Comment (Scroll down for yesterday's post): Yesterday at the World Gas Conference (WGC) in Kuala Lumpur, our friend, Dan Yergin (NGP Photo), said US oil production will be up by a million barrels per day this year along with dramatically increased gas production and that if one included Canadian production increases, North America could be "a lot less energy dependent" in the next ten years. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, B.C.,Canada at the summer meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, North Dakota's Deputy Director for Mineral Resources (Oil and Gas), Bruce Hicks (NGP [...]
Governor Sean Parnell addressed national policy issues facing the three dozen oil and gas producing state members of the Interstate Oil and Gas Comact Commission yesterday in Vancouver, B.C.. Parnell is the 2011-12 Chairman of the Congressionally-created compact, supported by members of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, including Chairman Kathy Foerster. Following that address, he executed a Memorandum of Understanding with his Yukon Territory counterpart, Premier Darrell Pasloski (See story below). Vancouver, British Columbia - Governor Sean Parnell and Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski (NGP Photo) renewed the Alaska-Yukon Intergovernmental Relations Accord. The leaders met [...]
...in Vancouver, B.C. with Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Governor Sean Parnell addresses commissioners this morning as this year's IOGCC Chairman. Report coming.... Exxon Mobil bullish on natural gas exports. But will Alaska benefit? Alaska Dispatch Sean Parnell supports the idea. Early this year, Parnell announced incremental ... of a $40 billion natural gas pipeline to Canada to supply the Lower 48. A first step: Gas storage legislation could help Fairbanks costs Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Sean Parnell. Parnell signed legislation that offers a state tax credit or ... and laying the groundwork for gas delivered via pipeline in the future. New York Times: Arctic Oil: [...]
Calgary Herald Opinion, by Deborah Yedlin. It's nothing short of mind-boggling. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair briefly toured the oilsands Thursday. But his visit didn't appear to change his negative stance on the industry whose financial benefits outside this province top $100 billion on an annual basis, with the lion's share going to Ontario. Yesterday, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) sent a series of letters to the Obama Administration requesting further information on how much the federal government spends on Endangered Species Act (ESA)-related litigation and settlement costs. “The [...]
Yesterday, we were honored to join other guests as new Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Morgan Christen (NGP Photo) was sworn into office. The Ninth Circuit is the appeal platform for a number of energy based issues heard within its large, western jurisdiction that extends frrom Montana to Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. Pacific Trust islands. It serves 20% of the US population, including over 60 million citizens. The majority of the justices were present at the Dena Dena'ina Civic & Convention Center between 3:30 and 5 p.m. before a [...]
Click here for the complete commentary, report and photos of the BLM's May 24th Anchorage hearing on the future of the Nation's National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, completed this morning. -dh Calgary Herald, by Dina O'Meara. The Canadian oilpatch The Hill, by Ben Geman. Michael Bromwich (NGP Photo), who led the overhaul of the Interior Department’s troubled offshore drilling branch, was never especially shy about trading blows with House Republicans. And now, back in the private sector, he’s really not pulling punches. Bromwich used a short National Journal commentary Tuesday to attack what he alleges [...]
Last week, CEA issued a Call To Action urging energy consumers across the country who are concerned about energy access to urge the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to move forward with a proposed Integrated Activity Plan that allows for expanded oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as well as infrastructure development necessary to support oil and gas development offshore in the Chukchi Sea. Other organizations within Alaska also announced 'Calls to Action'. Today we will be finishing our hearing report ("Alaskans Rocked Last Night") complete with photos and [...]
Looking forward to a Veterans Day television encounter today at Alaska Daylight Time, 4 p.m. with our friends at The Alaska Link! Join us here. NGP Photos: Dorene Lorenz and Mark Colavecchio. Calgary Herald by James Wood. ... Alison Redford (Photo by Colleen De Neve), fresh from her victory in the recent provincial election, plans to push her call for a Canadian energy strategy aimed at uniting provinces on resource development issues — and in backing Alberta’s oilsands. Redford has said environment and energy — as well as Mulcair’s comments [...]
NYT by JOHN M. BRODER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS. After listening to their findings about the BP accident and the safety of deepwater drilling, the president abruptly changed the subject. “Where are you coming out on the offshore Arctic?” he asked. William K. Reilly (NGP Photo), a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency and a commission co-chairman, was startled, as was Carol M. Browner, the president’s top adviser at the time on energy and climate change. Although a proposal by Shell to drill in the Arctic had been a source of [...]
Gas for southern Kenai: Parnell OKs partial gas line funding - Petroleum News Juneau reps riff on redistricting, gas line - Juneau Empire
Alaskans Rocked At Last Night's BLM Hearing! Commentary by Dave Harbour Last night, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held a hearing in Anchorage to gather comment on its Draft Integrated Activity Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (IAP/EIS) for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The Interior Department agency proposed four alternative approaches to managing NPR-A. As many as a hundred had gathered in the Science Center of the BLM's Campbell Creek facility to listen or testify. Twenty-one Alaskans enthusiastically supported oil and gas leasing of the nation's oil and gas [...]
The Straight Good News, by Gillian Steward. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair might as well have declared war on the West. Gov. Parnell says energy relief on its way to Fairbanks, but not right away, The Republic Tonight, BLM Officials Will Be Taking Testimony On A Ridiculous Question: "Shall bureaucrats diminish or stop resource development In America's National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska at a time when gas prices are high, employment is low, TAPS is 2/3 empty, the national and state treasuries need more revenue, and when America has already designated NPR-A to be a National Petroleum [...]
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