10-25-15 Alaska LNG Legislative Hearings

Click here to find today's Alaska LNG project legislative activities and videos, archived and live streaming! (Today's Email Alert Editorial: Link, text) See this excellent comparison of Alaska's 1980s economic recession, compared to the current and projected economy and an ADN story by Jeannette Lee Falsey. Juneau Empire by James Brooks.  Other News RT.  Putin builds large Arctic military base as America fiddles.     Alaska Public Radio Network What is Alaska LNG? Part 2: Meet the liquifaction plant.  Alaska Public Radio Network...Oct. 25, lawmakers will gather in Juneau for the start of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 25th, 2015|Arctic Policy, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-24-15

What is the Alaska LNG project? We break it down: Part 1 By Rachel Waldholz, APRN - Anchorage Lawmakers around the state are packing their bags and preparing to head to Juneau for their third special session of the year. This session will focus on one thing: the Alaska LNG project. That’s the giant pipeline the state hopes to build, along with ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips — and maybe TransCanada — to bring natural gas from the North Slope. But if you’re like a lot of Alaskans, you might be a little fuzzy on [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 24th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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10-21-15 BP Inks Two Big Deals With China

Will The New Liberal Government In Canada Strike A Climate Change Deal With Obama In Return For Keystone XL Approval?   LNG Agreement Signed During State Visit to UK BP and China Huadian Corporation (Huadian) today signed a sale and purchase agreement for BP to sell Huadian up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year worth up to $10 billion over the next 20 years.              The agreement was one of several signed in London during this week’s State Visit to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 21st, 2015|Keystone XL, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-14-15 Gasline Board of Directors Meeting Friday

We encourage interested readers to attend in person or by streaming web video, the monthly meeting of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Board meeting.  Here are the specifics, courtesy of our friends at Alaska Business Monthly: The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) Board of Directors will meet on October 16, 2015 in Anchorage, Alaska at the AGDC corporate office, Calais Building One, 3201 C Street. The meeting will be held in the AGDC Board Room, Suite 604 and convene at 9:00 am. The public is invited to attend in person [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:59-09:00October 14th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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10-12-15 International LNG Market Turmoil Makes Government Support Critical

The Alaskan & Canadian LNG Sagas Continue Amid International Market Turmoil   Commentary by Dave Harbour   From our mid-Atlantic oil and gas analyst friend comes his comment on two articles addressing the global LNG market.     Commentary: As chance would have it, our Aussie oil and gas analyst friend also commented on the Bloomberg article noted column-right, and below is his comment on LNG competition.   These two observations from two different parts of the world, from two objective observers, should sober up some of our Alaskan and Canadian public [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:59-09:00October 12th, 2015|Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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10-11-15 Alaska Governor Continues Career-long “Brawl” With Alaska Oil Industry

Alaska Governor Continues Career-long "Brawl" With Alaska Oil Industry ADN, Op-Ed by Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily Planet.  If reasoned leadership in this state sold for $1 billion a gram, we would have to scratch like chickens in a dusty barnyard to come up with a penny’s worth. If we could peddle ineptitude for a dime a ton, we would be rich. Let’s review: Our Swiss cheese fiscal ship is belly-up and sinking like a stone. Alaska suffered a $3.5 billion deficit last year; it faces $3 billion in red ink [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:59-09:00October 11th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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10-10-15 Taking A Hike Without A Map

Petroleum News by Steve Quinn.  House Speaker Mike Chenault (NGP Photo) says he’s ready to come back to Juneau for a special session addressing two developments on the state’s pursuit of a natural gas pipeline and an LNG export facility. But the Nikiski Republican adds that he remains in the dark on Gov. Bill Walker’s plans....  (Comments: Citizens should be embarrassed for and ashamed of a governor that calls a special session of the legislature and does not accompany that call with proposed legislation.  Even if the governor provided draft bills [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:59-09:00October 10th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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10-8-15 Is Alaska LNG Project Risk Understated? Should Government Take The Risk?

Between an overreaching governor who seems intent on commanding if not socializing Alaska's energy industry, and a President who seems intent on crippling if not shutting down Alaska's energy industry freedom is threatened on America's Last Frontier.  Today we explore why this is so.  -dh To our hundreds of Canadian readers: We apologize for the lack of news directly affecting you today; but we must focus on an Alaska Governor who exhibits a certain hubris impacting both the energy industry and Alaska's future.  You may find object lessons which also apply on [...]

By |2018-08-19T14:30:01-09:00October 9th, 2015|AGDC, Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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10-8-15 Native Corporation Aggressively Explores Interior Alaska

Quote of the day from our Aussie O&G analyst friend: ...from an anonymous letter circulating in Saudi Arabia, said to be written by an unhappy faction of princes: “We will not be able to stop the draining of money, the political adolescence, and the military risks unless we change the methods of decision making, even if that implied changing the king himself.”  (Our Note: between this, Amerca's poor leadership and Russia's Mid-East adventure, oil and gas prices may not be in a week what we believe they will be today.  -dh) Today: [...]

By |2017-07-30T06:24:07-09:00October 8th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-7-15 Natural Gas Prices Likely To Remain Depressed Through Q2, 2016

Juneau Empire by Elwood Brehmer.  Gov. Bill Walker’s proposal to increase the state’s share in the Alaska LNG Project could put Alaska on the hook for more than $14 billion....   Alaska Natural Resources Department Reserves Stream Water For Environmental Activists -- For The First Time!     Is EPA A Lawless Agency? We are sorry to hear today that our friend and former Alaskan, FERC Commissioner Phil Moeller, will be leaving the agency at the end of this month.  However, FERC's loss, in our opinion, will be another organization's gain. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00October 7th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Personal, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-5-15 Shell’s Plan And An Exchange of Emails With Our Aussie Friend

Shell’s Alaskan oil plan makes long-term sense amid questions over shale’s longevity The National, by Steven Kopits.  Shell announced this week that it was abandoning efforts to develop oil from the Alaska’s outer continental shelf (OCS). Faithful readers may wish to review related personal correspondence from last night with our esteemed Aussie oil and gas analyst, here. Our equally esteemed Mid-Atlantic oil and gas analyst friend adds this note today that should be an even stronger signal to Alaska's Governor Bill Walker. And, what is that signal?  The note signals [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00October 5th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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10-4-15

Petroleum News.  Fugro has been awarded a large geotechnical and geophysical program by ExxonMobil Alaska LNG LLC, AKLNG - a consortium of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP, TransCanada and the state of Alaska. The 2015 G&G program follows successful completion of a similar but smaller program carried out by Fugro in 2014.  More....

By |2016-03-13T03:45:01-09:00October 4th, 2015|Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-29-15 More Fallout Follows Shell’s Withdrawal From Alaska’s OCS Potential

See more of yesterday's reports and reactions from U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), various news sources yesterday, more sources today, and our commentary. Here is Tuesday's Early Report... ...in wake of Shell's announcement yesterday that after $7 billion invested and over a half decade of delay and disruption mostly caused by America's government, it is withdrawing from Arctic OCS exploration.  See statements (below) by Governor Walker, Alaska Oil and Gas Association, Consumer Energy Alliance, Congressman Don Young (NGP Photo) and American Energy Alliance.  (Search our archives for many other Shell Oil [...]

By |2017-10-10T15:20:33-09:00September 29th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, ANWR, Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, LNG, Notes From the Road, Ocean Policy, OCS, Rule Of Law, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-28-15 Supplement: Clarification of AGDC Mission

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Miles Baker, VP External Affairs & Government Relations (907) 321-8650 AGDC Clarifies Status of ASAP Project Federal Environmental Work on In-State Gasline Project Ongoing September 28, 2015 Anchorage, AK – The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) released a statement today clarifying the status of the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) project. In the last few days, several media outlets have incorrectly reported that the corporation’s board of directors took action to suspend work on the ASAP project during their September 23rd meeting in Anchorage. In a prepared statement, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00September 29th, 2015|AGDC, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-27-15 “Is Alaska Its Own Worst Enemy?”

Oil Price by Nick Cunningham.  ... ExxonMobil’s CEO Rex Tillerson didn’t mince words in a recent interview with the Energy Intelligence Group. “I have a long history with this, and I always tell every governor of Alaska, ‘You are not waiting on us. You are waiting on you,’” he told the Energy Intelligence Group, as reported by The Alaska Journal of Commerce. “And every governor that comes in decides they’ve got a different way of doing this, which is why it never happens. You can’t take a project that is [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:30-09:00September 28th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, LNG|0 Comments
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