8-6-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 6th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|

  Comment: Alaskans beware.   To the extent that the Walker administration socializes industry in Alaska, to that extent will free enterprise forces be replaced with political forces.   With a Municipally regulated (i.e. political appointees, Mayor and Assembly become regulators) natural gas utility supported by a subsidized state agency controlled by the Governor corruption of public utility regulation in Fairbanks is inevitable.   -Dave Harbour, former Chairman, Regulatory Commission of Alaska. ADN by Alex DeMarban.  The state attorney general has rejected an effort by a Hilcorp subsidiary to acquire an LNG [...]

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8-5-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00August 5th, 2015|Uncategorized|

    CBC.ca Energy East pipeline opposed by Anishinaabe Water Walkers CBC.ca Energy East pipeline opposed by Anishinaabe Water Walkers ... opposition to TransCanada's plan to convert the natural gas pipeline to transp....  

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8-3-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00August 3rd, 2015|Uncategorized|

Today's very relevant energy clips for NGP readers: The Maritime Executive: A Vote for Responsible Arctic Development *David Holt Q&A (NGP Photo) Shell’s Arctic drilling is expected to begin soon. MarEx spoke to David Holt, President of the U.S. Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), to discuss what it means for Alaska and the nation's Lower 48 states.   Jobkeeper Alliance: Consumer Group, Organizations, Elected Officials and Regulators Voice Concern on EPA “Clean Power Plan” *CEA Mention The American economy is literally energized by one of the world’s most complex and efficient machines – the nation’s [...]

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8-2-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00August 2nd, 2015|Uncategorized|

    Calgary Herald Energy East pipeline will cost more than $12 billion, TransCanada says Calgary Herald For two thirds of the way, TransCanada aims to convert an underused natural gaspipeline and then build all new pipe through Quebeck and....  

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8-1-15 Navarre Gears Up For LNG

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00August 1st, 2015|LNG|

Petroleum News, by Steve Quinn.  Mike Navarre has two years to help the Kenai Peninsula Borough find its place and role in the prospective AKLNG project. The Democratic mayor understands those limits, yet he says he doesn’t want the borough to be caught off guard if the project gets under way when thousands of new workers descend....

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7-31-15

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 31st, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  A July 17 application by BP to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for amendments to area injection orders for the Prudhoe Bay field marks a critical step toward the possibility of building a major gas pipeline for the export of natural gas from the North Slope. The application requests approval for an increase in the maximum amount of gas that can be withdrawn from the field and approval to inject additional carbon dioxide into the field reservoir. Although huge quantities of natural gas [...]

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7-30-15 Murkowski’s Senate Energy Committee Votes to Lift Crude Export Ban and Allow State OCS Revenue Sharing

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 31st, 2015|Federal Progress, OCS, You Read It Here First|

TONIGHT: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed major bills Thursday on lifting the crude oil export ban and its broad energy package. The oil export bill would also increase offshore drilling and provide revenue sharing for neighboring states. It passed 12-10, along party lines. "It's the result of collaborative efforts by members of this committee to boost offshore development, allow revenue sharing for coastal producing states and lift the outdated ban on crude exports," Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairwoman of the panel, said of the [...]

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7-29-15 EPA Continues To Amass Federal Power At Expense of Citizen Freedom

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 29th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|

Crude Oil Exports Would Benefit Great Lakes States: Murkowski   From our friend, Rebecca Logan (NGP Photo), General Manager, Alaska Support Industry Alliance:     The new EPA rule on Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is perhaps the most critical issuing facing us today.  The article below gives a great perspective on why so many are concerned about the rule, and the rule-making process.  Rebecca Logan General Manager Alaska Support Industry Alliance  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (NGP Photo), today convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to continue consideration [...]

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7-28-15 Is Climate Change Science Settled?

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 28th, 2015|Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment|

See our Facebook commentary this morning re: Climate Change  -dh From the Senate Energy Committee: See How Envronmental Extremism is Destroying California Lives Aussie Oil and Gas Observer: The smashing of the Shanghai stock market yesterday – an 8.5% fall (the biggest one day decline in eight years) – has reverberated around the world in both stock markets and commodity markets, and oil was not left out of the carnage.    ***    Japan’s average LNG price (per mmbtu) for June was down again – at US$8.65.  Volumetrically this figure is [...]

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7-27-15

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 27th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, OCS|

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  On July 22 the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued permits allowing Shell to drill the top hole sections of two wells in the Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea. Shell now has all of the permits that it needs to start drilling.  However, BSEE is prohibiting Shell from drilling into hydrocarbon bearing zones until....

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7-26-15 Canada-owned oil sands mine in Utah to begin producing in fall

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 27th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Canada-owned oil sands mine in Utah to begin producing in fall Mining by  Cecilia Jamasmie.  Canada’s U.S. Oil Sands (TSX-V:USO) is fine tuning details to begin production at its mine in eastern Utah, the first commercial oil sands operations in the United States, after receiving final regulatory approvals from local officials late last week. While the mine had already been approved for construction, the Calgary-based company recently submitted a proposal to expand it. The Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining approved that plan, but ThinkProgressreported it did so on the condition that the [...]

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7-25-15 Raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 25th, 2015|Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Communications Director Robert Dillon writes us that, "Reuters senior energy market analyst John Kemp today weighed in against a plan to raid the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to pay for three years of a six–year highway bill."  Following is the article: SPR oil sales would be a mistake before strategy review is concluded: John Kemp “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not an ATM,” Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee warned the Senate this week. “It is certainly not the [...]

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7-24-15 Northern Pipelines, Economies, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal People Are Interdependent

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 24th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|

Write us here to request a free, email alert subscription Northern Pipelines, Economies, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal People Are Interdependent Our Comment: Alaska Natives, Canadian Aboriginals and Northern economies depend on oil and gas development and the transportation systems moving the resources to market. Transportation systems like pipelines require rights of way.  Rights of way and subsistence hunting and fishing and agricultural areas very often overlap proposed pipeline routes. All stakeholders care about the safety of pipeline operations.  For sure, all stakeholders wish to maximize their own income streams.   [...]

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7-23-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:13-09:00July 23rd, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Progress, OCS|

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (NGP Photo), yesterday issued the following response to the Interior Department’s approval of two conditional permits to Shell to resume its exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea: “Today’s approval by the Department of Interior of the permits Shell needs to resume drilling in the Chukchi Sea is good news for Alaska and our country. However, it is not the final regulatory hurdle Shell faces and it is important that the agencies continue to work in good faith and in a timely fashion to complete the remaining [...]

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