9-25-15 Alaska’s Governor Issues Bombshell Gasline Report

Gasline from Alaska Governor Bill Walker on Vimeo. YOU READ ALASKA GOVERNOR BILL WALKER'S ANNOUNCEMENTS HERE FIRST, YESTERDAY     BELOW IS TODAY'S UPDATE  (Scheduled for completion this weekend) Reader comments: Dave, Dave: "... appreciate your efforts greatly, as do a lot of folks." -From an energy industry journalist. Hi Dave:   Did you ever read the Bizarro World comics??     We are living such in real time I'm afraid.   Cheers!!   Ron Arvin  I always enjoy your newsletter, but your recent re: the NG issues one is special. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 25th, 2015|AGDC, Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG, You Read It Here First|1 Comment
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9-24-15 Big TransCanada Layoffs Announced – Alaska Gas Project Agrees to Property Taxes

You'll love this Blog by our Aussie friend; try it here. Suncor (TSX:SU), Canada's largest energy company, boosted its stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project​ ADN by Pat Forgey.  The big oil companies that plan to produce and ship North Slope natural gas have agreed to pay $16.5 billion in property taxes on the huge project, but they'll pay them to the state instead of local governments, Revenue Commissioner Randy Hoffbeck said Wednesday. Financial Post: TransCanada layoffs.   “This past Monday, employees were informed of organizational changes being implemented over [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 24th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-22-15 BP’s US and Alaska Economic Reports

See BP's 2015 $135 billion US Economic Impact and Its Alaska Economic Report (Supporting over 24k jobs) Our Commentary Calgary Herald.       Cagary Herald End of year deadline for review of Alberta Energy Regulator, says minister ADN by Pat Forgy.   The North Slope Borough has become fabulously wealthy from taxes on the oil industry and its massive Prudhoe Bay infrastructure.   More.... Reader Commentary by Our Mid-Atlantic Energy Senior Consultant Friend (Reference this Fuel Fix Story by Collin Eaton) Our Commentary While Alaska producers are poised to finance and build a gas pipeline/LNG export [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 22nd, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-21-15

Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) wrapped up his final day of meetings to discuss Alaska’s liquefied natural gas potential to prospective customers in Japan.  More from Office of the Governor. ADN Op-Ed by Paul Jenkins.  ... While Gov. Bill Walker was off doing whatever he was doing last week in Japan -- ostensibly trying to peddle Alaska liquefied natural gas he does not own -- he left a fuse smoldering here.  ...  Walker has a penchant for tossing monkey wrenches. He wanted to expand the $10 billion Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 21st, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-20-15

Comment:  Peninsula Clarion by Rashah McChesney.   It was a friendly gathering, but Alaska LNG project representatives found themselves in the hot seat on Thursday during the first of two informal community meetings planned in Nikiski. For two hours, community stakeholder adviser Josselyn O’Connor and socioeconomic adviser Mark Jennings fielded questions ranging from  Yesterday's Forum On Alaska's Fiscal and Economic Future verified that Alaska has no consensus for avoiding the fiscal cliff. Alaska's future is the product of its own decisions, and that future looks dire. Only exceptional leadership can [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 20th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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9-19-15

Globe and Mail, by OSAMU TSUKIMORI.  Alaska could pay $70-million (U.S.) to $100-million for TransCanada’s 25 per cent stake in the midstream and upstream sectors of the proposed Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Governor Bill Walker said on Thursday. Walker has recommended to legislators that the U.S. state should buy the stake, adding to a similar stake in a planned liquefaction plant and giving it a quarter share of the giant 20 million tonnes per annum export project.  More....

By |2016-03-13T03:55:25-09:00September 19th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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9-14-15 LNG Prospects Fading

See Sunday's TAPS Pioneer Op-Ed by Dave Haugen (NGP Photo-L) *     *    * Anchodrage Daily Planet, "Dealing with a $3.5 billion deficit", by Tom Brennan (NGP Photo) ALASKAN PIPE & LNG POLITICS / ECONOMICS.  ADN.  In a tense marathon meeting that one lawmaker likened to an “inquisition,” Republican legislators blasted the state’s gas line team after learning that a lack of agreement between the state and its partners in the massive Alaska LNG project may preclude a special session this fall, possibly leading to costly delays.    CANADIAN PIPE & LNG [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 14th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-10-15 Once again–you read it here first!

We love the Energy Producing States Coalition's advocacy for domestic energy and join the group in welcoming a new legislative member, Pennsylvania's Representative Pam Snyder (Photo).  -dh Calgary Herald, by Geoffrey Morgan.Suncor Energy Inc.’s Steve Williams blasted the “stupidity” of pipeline politics in the U.S. and Canada.... Our Readers will be interested in Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) Sunday, Anchorage Daily Planet review of the role Exxon, ARCO, Tom, Hank Rosenthal and others -- including your author -- played in Alaska Waterfowl enhancement policies of the 1970s and 80s.  -dh Exxon CEO Rex [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 10th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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8-25-15 Here Is An Alaska LNG “Wake Up Call” From LNG Expert Ray Latchem

An Expert Speaks: "Alaska's In-State LNG Project" We Urge All Alaskans To Read The In State Natural Gas Opinion Piece Below; It Is Written By One of America's (and Alaska's) Most Experienced Community LNG Operators.  (Normally, we are addressing Alaska's gas export project: Ak-LNG.  Today, we look at an Alaska intrastate project.)  Vancouver Sun by Vaughn Palmer.  Louisiana beats British Columbia and Alaska on LNG Export Projects We do not support a government subsidized natural gas utility and believe the model being employed by Alaska to serve Fairbanks is deeply flawed [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00August 25th, 2015|Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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8-21-15

Petroleum News: Russian moves highlight Arctic concerns  08/23/2015 (Trouble viewing this article? Click here)  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo) said the Russians are looking to militarize the Arctic, making it all the more important for the U.S. to have a broad Arctic strategy that includes having sufficient troops based in Alaska. Sullivan said Aug. 17 that’s why he has been critical of proposed troop reductions in.... Petroleum News: AGDC board elects officers and gets estimates of off-take facilities costs  08/23/2015 (Trouble viewing this article? Click here)  The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. board of directors met Aug. 13, elected officers, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 21st, 2015|Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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8-20-15

Please note our June 25 commentary on competitiveness.   Then, bookmark our April 17 commentary.  -dh Comment: Critical reading of today's events below demonstrates some good news in the form of COP's new drilling at its CD5 property on the Alaska North Slope (ANS).  Then, we note from our Australian and Ohio analysts the increased difficulty faced by an ANS gas transportation project in a low energy price, high production environment.   ALASKA DECISION MAKERS: Does this not mean Alaska must become even more competitive to market its natural resources, not [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 20th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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8-14-15

Gas offers have come in - 08/16/2015 (Full story) Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  The Interior Energy Project, an Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority initiative to bring affordable energy to Fairbanks and the Alaska Interior, has passed a couple of milestones, as the project team assesses bids for the supply of gas from the Cook Inlet basin and proposals for the sh....   (Comment: We remain wary about the reality of Walker Administration efforts to block a free enterprise sale of LNG facilities so that politicians can force feed natural gas [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:55:07-09:00August 14th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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8-6-15

  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 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 6th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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8-1-15 Navarre Gears Up For 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....

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00August 1st, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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7-31-15

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 [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 31st, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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