3-29-15 NPC Says Develop Arctic Energy

Hearst Newspapers by Jennifer Dlouhy.   The United States should move swiftly to harness the tremendous oil and gas reserves locked under its Arctic waters while the industry improves the equipment used to drill wells and sop up spills, according to a government advisory committee report released Friday. The analysis, conducted by the National Petroleum Council at the request of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, makes the case for the United States to aggressively develop Arctic oil and gas that can help supply the country with energy long after production tails [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:07-09:00March 29th, 2015|AGDC, Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

3-26-15 Major Alaska Legislative Hearing: Ak-LNG North Slope Gas Project

Commentary: Yesterday, the Senate Resources Committee's Chairman, Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo) scheduled testimony on HB 132 clarifying the mission of the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation.  ON THE FEDERAL SIDE: ADN Commentary by Randall Luhi (NGP Photo).  We need to take our country and economy to the next level in terms of energy security. The only way to do this is to safely and responsibly explore our own offshore energy resources, particularly off Alaska. SHELL DECISION CLOSE! ADN by Jennifer Dlouhy.  The Obama administration is set to announce within days whether [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:24-09:00March 26th, 2015|AGDC, AGIA, Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

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

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 [...]

3-22-15

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....

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

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, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 20th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Competition, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments

3-11-15 For the archives: gasline problems for Alaska’s new governor

  TODAY'S CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE ENERGY NEWS LINKS KTVA by Rhonda McBride. AJOC by Tim Bradner.  I was puzzled, but not surprised, when Gov. Bill Walker made his surprise announcement that he would seek an expansion of a state-led gas pipeline that is being planned as a backup to a large industry-led pipeline and liquefied natural gas project, which is now in preliminary engineering.  More.... When Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) announced he wanted to put a backup gas line project in competition with the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas project, he opened [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 11th, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

3-10-15 Proud Of Our Newest Senator

Are We Proud Of Alaska's Newest U.S. Senator?  Yes We Are! (We are also delighted with the new, House Natural Resources Chairman, Rob Bishop.  Bishop replaced our longtime hero Chairman Doc Hastings and seems to be effectively and seemlessly moving forward.  More here....  -dh) During his tenure as Alaska's Attorney General Alaska's newest U.S. Senator, Dan Sullivan, brought lawsuits against the federal government for endangering Alaska's constitutionally reliant resource base. Sullivan later served as Commissioner of Natural Resources, continuing Alaska's stand against hostile instances of federal overreaching jurisdiction. As the 49th [...]

Mackenzie Valley Oil Pipeline? Cook Inlet Gas For Fairbanks?

Watch live hearing  today @ 1 p.m. ADT re: HB 105, AIDEA BONDS; PROGRAMS; LOANS; Fairbanks LNG PROJECT (Note increased C.I. reserve estimates) ... Friday, Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator's Office Closed; Larry Persily (NGP Photo) now Kenai Borough Gas Pipeline Coordinator ... AJOC, Midwest Utility Coming North To Alaska? Alberta Oil Magazine by Richelle Wiseman.  (Mackenzie Valley Oil Pipeline?  See our earlier stories.  Photo, Invuik Church, Circa. 2002) It took nearly 40 years, one national inquiry and thousands of hours of negotiations, but in 2011 the National Energy Board finally approved the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline. [...]

3-8-15 Walker’s Wall Of Gasline Opposition

ADN by Paul Jenkins.  "Walker's Wrong Way Pipeline...."  For useful references, see: 3-4-15, Legislators Push Back; 3-2-15, Walker and Legislature Tangle; 2-28-15 Walker Op-Ed; 2-28-15, Jenkins Op-ed re: Crazy as a loon/fox. Gov. Bill Walker now finds himself at loggerheads with lawmakers correctly cranky about his grandiose expansion plans for the $10 billion Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline. His idea is to have ASAP compete with the $65 billion Alaska LNG Project, even though that could ball up the state’s business relationship with producers, who have spent hundreds of millions getting this far, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 8th, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

3-6-15 Oil Investors Continue To Face Federal and State Obstacles

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  Just as things seemed to be going reasonably well for the large Alaska LNG Project, the $45 billion to $65 billion gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas initiative in which the state is a partner, Gov. Bill Walker may be throwing a wrench into the works.  More.... Houston Chronicle by Jennifer Dlouhy.  The Obama administration will decide soon whether to sign off on Shell's request for extra time to hunt for oil in Arctic waters, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Wednesday. Without action, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 6th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, OCS|0 Comments

3-4-15 If you could tour the AK-LNG gas pipeline route!

If you could tour the pipeline route (See AK-LNG): by Bill White, Office of the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator. If you could tour the pipeline route Send by email By:   Bill White Researcher/Writer, Office of the Federal Coordinator bwhite@arcticgas.gov Release Date:   March 4, 2015 Alaska LNG project sponsors often remind people it's really three projects — a gas treatment plant on the North Slope, a long pipeline bisecting the state and a liquefaction plant at coastal Nikiski. Each would cost billions of dollars, and need tons of steel, thousands of workers and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00March 4th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments

3-1-15 Governor Bill Walker Wanted To Kill the ASAP Project Before He Wanted to Strengthen And ‘Own’ It. -dh

In Today's ADN, Paul Jenkins opines that:  ... "With a pen stroke, Walker switched the board’s focus from pipeline to politics, with a different outlook and differing goals and needs. "Now, Walker wants to beef up ASAP, the Legislature’s baby, and have it compete with the larger project. ASAP started life in 2010 as a small-diameter, in-state backup to the producer's gigantic Alaska LNG Project to move gas from the North Slope to Nikiski. "ASAP was bumped up to a 36-inch diameter line, but Walker considered it uneconomical -- even [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:51:12-09:00March 1st, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

2-20-15 Alaska Gasline Board Appointees AND More On Fairbanks Gas LNG/Transportation/Distrbution Project

Yesterday, Alaska Governor Bill Walker appointed three new board members to the AGDC (Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, aka. "ASAP"). Video: note sound volume low in beginning, becomes normal after a few minutes. STATUS: Interior Energy Project (Government project to establish a new, natural gas LNG / transmission / distribution system for Fairbanks Alaska.) Here is our "links page" to the IAP for quick reference. COMMENTARY: IEP On February 12 we had become confused about status of the multi-hundred million dollar government program to provide one Alaskan community with low cost energy. Since a [...]

By |2018-03-07T10:59:15-09:00February 20th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

2-12-15 Senators Murkowski and Sullivan Take On Big Issues Of The Day

Sen. Murkowski meets with Kerry on Arctic issues - Timothy Cama  Alaska's newest U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan tackles big issues! U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, yesterday applauded passage by the House of legislation approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. The House approved S.1 by a vote of 270 to 152. New U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo) of Alaska delivers maiden speech (1/27/15): Supporting Keystone XL and "Big Dreams"and a federal government that, "ignites hope". Boehner: Obama siding with [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 12th, 2015|ANWR, Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas, Keystone XL, LNG, NPR-A|0 Comments

2-9-15 Alaska’s Oil Tax Reform Is Working Well

ADN Commentary by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo).  It’s been months since Alaskans voted to retain the new oil production tax system, but we still hear grumbling that this was a big giveaway to industry. Time to pound a stake into this zombie. Bloomberg by Jeremy Van Loon.  Alberta is in discussions with Alaska about shipping oil-sands crude through the U.S. state to the Pacific as approval for the southbound Keystone XL pipeline languishes in Washington. The Alaska plan would involve constructing a pipeline along the Mackenzie River valley and then west to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00February 9th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, LNG|0 Comments
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