3-25-15 Gasline Bill Passes – Alaska Economic Update – Arctic Residents Take Place At Arctic Policy Table

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 25th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, OCS|

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Seizes Arctic Initiative: Criticizes Environmental Carpet Baggers! Gasline Bill Passes Alaska House Alaska Economic Update- Part 2  - See Part 1 Here By Mark Edwards (NGP Photo) In our last post, we discussed the falling oil prices and the possible impact on the economy. Today we will look at jobs, unemployment, and population. Payroll jobs increase only 0.3% in 2013 and 2014.  No growth predicted in 2015 - Alaska's payroll job count increased by 1,000 jobs or 0.3% last year, similar to 2013 results.  This slight increase [...]

3-25-15 ARCTIC FOR ALL!

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 25th, 2015|Arctic Policy|

ARCTIC FOR ALL.  We urge our Alaskan, Canadian and Lower 48 readers to keep close to this new Arctic-centered information effort.  In today's posting, we learn that: Alaskans Question U.S. Arctic Representative about Their Role in Policy Making Norway Leads the World in Arctic Investment China Establishes Arctic Satellite Data Receiving Station

3-24-15 Oil Tax Reform Continues To Produce Alaska Production Results

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 24th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|

ConocoPhillips Announces Funding Approval for Kuparuk ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. yesterday announced that the Kuparuk viscous oil development 1H NEWS (Northeast West Sak) has been approved for funding by ConocoPhillips and the Kuparuk co-owners. Plans for engineering have been ongoing, and construction will now move forward. This is the largest investment in viscous oil at Kuparuk since 2004, and it is expected to add about 8,000 barrels of oil per day (BOD) gross at peak production.  (See the full ConocoPhillips release here.) Whether President Obama is bribing or blackmailing governors, either way, it's [...]

3-22-15 Cruz Announces – Obama Targets Fracking With More Regs – Alaska and Alberta Face Oil Price Challenges With Similar Diversification Temptations

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 24th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Fracking|

National Commentary: After watching the Ted Cruz speech a few minutes ago, many might agree that he is qualified to lead the country into the sunshine -- away from our current maladies, years of malaise and dark path toward economic and social chaos--for two main reasons. First, he understands the rule-of-law and jurisdictionally overreaching abuses of the current administration affecting energy production which, in turn,  underpins the historical and future wealth of America. Second, he articulated virtually all of the values which many of us believe are required to sustain the economy, security [...]

3-22-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 22nd, 2015|Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|

Fairbanks News Miner Editorial.  Other than the state’s budget deficit, the state’s most important decision with regard to its future is the path it will take to a natural gas pipeline. After many years of stagnation under the failed Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, there have been signs of progress in the state’s goal of developing a large-diameter natural gas pipeline that would both supply the state’s gas needs and provide for substantial export. More....

3-21-15

By |2016-03-13T03:51:40-09:00March 22nd, 2015|OCS|

Petroleum News.  In early February Ben van Beurden, CEO of Shell, confirmed that his company was moving ahead with plans to restart its exploration drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea during the 2015 summer open water season. In apparent confirmation of that statement notices relating to requests from Shell for some go....

3-20-15 Alaskan and Canadian Energy Investors Face a Competitive New World

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 20th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Competition, LNG, Reader Comment|

See this week's Petroleum News, just released. Compared to Russian and Canadian Arctic energy initiatives, U.S. efforts are pathetic.  Russia's Arctic power could well influence competitive factors discussed below in ways detrimental to the world's democracies.  Read more....    -dh  Decision makers: look below, and ignore the competitive, new, worldwide oil & gas market at your own peril and at the risk of removing opportunities from your succeeding generation of young, hopeful, ambitious children that you and your friends enjoyed.  -dh Today, an energy analyst friend privately opines on natural gas pricing, [...]

3-19-15 Lessons For Alaska From Canada

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 19th, 2015|Personal|

  Lessons For Alaska From Canada: Investors Can Go Anywhere.  Get "your act together".  You're not the "only game in town!"      -dh CBC News.  ConocoPhillips says it doesn't plan to do any more exploration work on its parcel in the N.W.T.'s Canol shale oil play for the foreseeable future. ... "Although a significant discovery declaration and subsequent significant discovery licence is a positive indication for a play, it does not indicate commercial viability," said Kristen Ashcroft, a spokesperson for ConocoPhillips. The company says it will return to the site next winter, but only to suspend a well — "a [...]

3-18-15

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 18th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Today's Energy In Depth Energy Links.  (More coming) NATIONAL New HF rules coming in ‘days’. Houston Chronicle. The Obama administration is poised to impose new rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands. The mandates are aimed at boosting the integrity of wells on public lands to ensure oil, gas and other fluids are contained within them. The rules will also require recovered water and other fluids to be safely stored at the sites. The Bureau of Land Management is set to release the final regulation “in the next few days,” Interior [...]

3-17-15 Acknowledging the Day

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 17th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Petroleum News by Kristen Nelson: The Regulatory Commission of Alaska and the House Energy Committee are struggling with overlapping issues related to the ability of independent power producers to sell electric power to existing utilities and to access transmission lines. The committee has held a number of hearings on House Bill 78.... Happy Saint Patrick's Day: What A Man! WND News.  St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. An icon of the Irish and the reason we wear green on St. Patrick's day, this influential saint [...]

3-16-15 The Future of Oil Prices According to An Astute Reader – Senators Sullivan’s Reputation Spreads

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 16th, 2015|Personal, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|

Our friend, Rob Bradley (File Photo-R) of the Master Resource Blog, saw U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan's (NGP Photo) Maiden Senate Speech on this website and has further promoted it to his large international audience (here).  (Our original coverage and speech text)  -dh Halloran Opines On Proposed Ohio Severance Tax and Future of Oil Prices Republican Governor Proposes Ohio Severance Tax?  Our friend, Independent Energy Analyst James R. Halloran (File Photo) just returned from the Ohio Oil and Gas Association Winter Meeting where he reported that, "the big issue is Governor Kasich’s proposal for a (completely [...]

3-15-15

By |2016-03-13T03:51:27-09:00March 15th, 2015|AGDC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

AJOC by Tim Bradner.   Despite Gov. Bill Walker’s threat of a veto, House leaders are pushing ahead with a bill that would put sideboards on the governor’s plan to expand a state-led backup gas pipeline into a large project that could be seen as a competitor to the Alaska LNG Project, the industry-led gas project in which the state is also a 25 percent owner. ...In a related development, Alaska Gasline Development Corp. Public Affairs Manager Miles Baker said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers informed AGDC on March [...]

3-14-15

By |2016-03-13T03:51:27-09:00March 14th, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

JOC by Tim Bradner.   The first new jobs created by Gov. Bill Walker’s new gas pipeline plan may well be in California, it appears. Following the governor’s directions, the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has initiated a study of costs to do engineering to scale-up a state-backed North Slope natural gas pipeline, the Alaska Stand-Alone Gas Pipeline. The state pipeline is now planned with a capacity to move 500 million cubic feet per day. The governor wants to increase it to as much as 2.6 billion cubic feet per [...]

3-13-15 Apology to Canada (and the world)

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 13th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Keystone XL, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|

See Alaskanomics Posting of Mike Bradner's Column Re: State Spending.  Why do we at Northern Gas Pipelines often focus on the importance of a 'sustainable Alaska budget'?  Because if the state cannot control spending and continues deficit spending, no infrastructure project in the future will be safe from sudden, unplanned, predatory taxation to stave off bankruptcy: hence, no gas pipeline.  That's why.  -dh Apology To Canada And To The World by Dave Harbour Robert O. Anderson, Atlantic Richfield Co. Board Chairman, Board Member: Arctic Gas Consortium, Photo Circa 1975. Spring, 1976 [...]

3-1-15 Senator Murkowski Uses Bully Pulpit to Educate America

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 12th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|

Landlocked: Murkowski Explains Alaskans’ Access Frustrations The Governor and Entire Congressional Delegation Recently Vowed to Fight the Administration's Overreaching Action to Shut Down Alaska Resource Development and Her Economy.  Senator  Murkowski Has Acted to Create A YouTube Video to Highlight Growing Federal Restrictions in Alaska.  Thank you, Senator Murkowski for Effective Work And Quick Action!  We believe that some educational entity could take that map video and expand it into a one hour lesson plan framework for elementary, high school and college students.  -dh WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today released [...]

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