What Does This Week's Gas Pipeline Effort Have To Do With The August Primary Election? by Dave Harbour Thirty-three years ago this week, Alaska's governor, Jay Hammond (NGP Photo), gathered with House and Senate leadership to announce bipartisan legislation aimed at reforming oil taxes. Point of Personal Privilege: We celebrate the life and mourn the passing of our great friend, Dr. Milton Byrd (NGP Photo). (See our later update and obituary on March 3, 2014) [...]
KTUU. The Alaska Senate has passed legislation aimed at advancing a major liquefied natural gas project, over nagging concerns about the role of TransCanada Corp. The vote was 15-5.
Part IV: Can Alaska be a place where A DEAL IS A DEAL? Competition Perspectives: Part IV (Part I, Part II, Part III) Is Alaska Flirting With The Last Gas Pipe Straw? by Dave Harbour We had written a very long commentary which tried to shed light on the effect of currently discussed issues on Alaska investment climate competitiveness. We then delved into the effect various pending decisions could have on prospects for an economically feasible gas pipeline. And we concluded that, as in Canada's MGM case, investors would do the best [...]
KTOO by Ed Schoenfeld. Gov. Sean Parnell wants to look for ways to get natural gas to Alaska’s coastal communities. He says a gas line and LNG plant could benefit more than Railbelt communities.
Is Alaska Flirting With The Last Gas Pipe Straw? Competition Perspectives: Part IV (Part I, Part II, Part III) by Dave Harbour (Read More) Our friend, John Hofmeister (NGP Photo), former Shell President, offered this "quotable quote" on the energy situation during his interview with the Oxford Club's Energy and Infrastructure Strategist Dave Fessler: Please Consider Testifying Today, Friday, March 14 on HB 77: Improve Alaska's Permitting Efficiency (We at NGP believe this is one rather small but important way citizens can improve Alaska's investment climate--rather than our usual challenge to fight off additional investment climate attacks! -dh) Our friends at the [...]
Alaska Public Media by Alexandra Gutierrez. The latest version of a bill advancing a natural gas megaproject restores language concerning collective bargaining. The Senate Finance Co-Chair Pete Kelly announced on Tuesday evening that the committee will scrap the less specific language they had planned to use when dealing with labor terms. Commentary: The following post by the Pebble Project precisely reflects the editorial position we have taken for several years. We would add that the White House has no business lecturing Russia and other nations on the importance of [...]
Tough competition expected among new LNG projects by Bill White, Office of the Federal Coordinator bwhite@arcticgas.gov [1] March 4, 2014 Bill White and Office of the Federal Coordinator, under leadership of Larry Persily, provide a useful service to government and industry with scholarly essays on issues and facts related to disposition of Alaska North Slope Gas. In this piece, White carefully analyzes various aspects of Alaska LNG competition. Please also see our 2-12-14 commentary on the same subject. -dh HOUSTON — Too many potential liquefied natural gas export projects are chasing the expected [...]
BP today announced its intention to establish a separate business to manage its onshore oil and gas assets in the US Lower 48. See today's Globe & Mail piece on Asian LNG competition for price Comment: Yesterday we noted that two legislators are planning for a new oil revenue stream should voters adopt an August Primary Ballot proposition to repeal oil tax reform. That revenue stream will be based on a new policy emphasis on state investment and equity into oil and gas exploration and development projects. These are the [...]
Alliance Profile: M-I SWACO a Schlumberger Company: From Drilling through Production, Focused on our Customers Alaska LNG Project Faces Market Challenges...And Political Challenges Competition Perspectives: Part I (Part II, Part III) by Dave Harbour Alaska and Mackenzie Delta producers are eyeing LNG exports to Asia as this generation's best option for monetizing Arctic gas. Previous generations were close: with the Arctic Gas project in the 1970s (i.e. including TransCanada); displaced by the Alcan project in the 1980s (i.e. vigorously opposed by TransCanada); and the Alaska Highway gas pipeline project given new life with [...]
Washington Times Commentator Robert Skinner wonders if Obama is breaking US-Canada tradition of energy cooperation. See our earlier report of Robert Dillon's Keystone analysis. -DH The Pebble Partnership (PLP) this week announced that Pebble CEO John Shively (NGP Photo) will assume the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors—a move that allows Shively to be a part of the strategic leadership team for advancing the project. With this move, PLP is appointing Tom Collier to the position of CEO for the company. (Read more here.) VIDEO LEFT (audio link): Yesterday [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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