Alaska Railroad and Energy Share Destinies – Bullet Line On Course

Platts.  Alaskan state-sponsored efforts to build a gas pipeline to southcentral Alaska could provide gas to utilities there and allow the Kenai LNG plant to resume exports, Mike Chenault (NGP Photo), the speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives said Thursday. See video of the Resource Development Council for Alaska's (RDC) Thursday meeting featuring Alaska Railroad Corporation President Chris Aadnesen (NGP Photo-above). RDC President Tom Maloney's (NGP Photo-r) announcement Thursday that long-time Executive Director Jason Brune (NGP Photo) will be leaving the Council to join Anglo American's executive staff in Anchorage.  More coming..

By |2016-03-13T03:57:24-09:00May 20th, 2011|Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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Denali Gas Pipeline Project To Terminate Operations

We have commented on Denali's demise HERE and archived the news releases documenting its progress.  -dh Denali - The Alaska Gas Pipeline announced today that its open season efforts have not resulted in the customer commitments necessary to continue work on its Alaska North Slope gas pipeline project, which has an overall estimated capital cost of $35 billion (2009 dollars). Denali will withdraw its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission pre-file application and, over the next few months, close out its operations. "Denali is ending its efforts because of a lack of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:49-09:00May 17th, 2011|Commentary|0 Comments
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Fires Rage In Alberta Oil Patch – DOE and COP Install ANS Gas Hydrate Test Well – Industry BBQ Friday in Anchorage – ADN Says Better Here Than Brazil

HEAR SENATOR MURKOWSKI SPEAK ON OIL TAXES VIA C-SPAN AT 2:20 P.M. EDT.  LOOK BELOW FOR BREAKING NEWS ON NEW GAS HYDRATE TEST WELL INSTALLATION!  ALWAYS TUNE IN HERE FOR BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY ON STATUS OF GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS!  Yesterday we addressed President Obama's Saturday pro-domestic energy speech; today the ADN editorializes:  BOTTOM LINE: Let Shell explore, let Slope producers tap NPR-A -- and keep a close watch.  No question there is risk, and a lot of work to do before production -- if it pans out. But, as [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:50-09:00May 17th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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Obama Addresses Alaska Resources as Alaska Leaders Respond Guardedly – Truckers Speak Out – NEB Hosts Inuvik Roundtable And Pays Way For Some Guests

Today's Email Alert NEB.  Comment:  Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) will host a Roundtable Meeting in Inuvik at the Midnight Sun Recreation Centre from 10 to 16 September 2011 and reimburse certain outsiders up to $300,000 to fly in and sit at the roundtable.    We suspect that most of the subsidized visitors to Inuvik will be non-industry advocates.    We imagine the September event will merit some discussion at the Inuvik Petroleum Show next month.  -dh Opinion: American Truckers Speak Out On Energy. The trucking industry annually consumes 35 billion gallons of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:50-09:00May 16th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Coordinator, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, NEB|0 Comments
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Governor Draws Line in Coastal Sand – NEB’s Gaeton Says Gas Production Declining – State Executive Calls Pipeline Situation Urgent – US House Passes Energy Package – Gas Pipeline Panel On TV This Weekend – Shell Submits Chukchi Exploration Plan

HQ Yellowknife.  Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) said the Mackenzie Gas Project would translate to billions of dollars for the NWT and Canadian economy, calling it a “nation building endeavour.” Calgary Herald by Dina O'Meara.  Canadian natural gas production is expected to drop by 4.4 per cent within two years on an oversupplied North American market and a shift toward drilling more lucrative oil prospects, according to a new report. ... Fevered drilling for shale gas in the United States flooded North American markets at a time when demand was soft because [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:51-09:00May 13th, 2011|Commentary, NEB|0 Comments
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Parnell Seeks National Support To Meet Pipeline Goals – Are Alaska Senators Blowing Smoke?

The Hill Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) called the Democratic plan to scrap tax breaks for the big five oil producers to pay down the deficit “laughable” ....  Wall Street Journal (5/11/11) reports: The U.S. approved a Royal Dutch Shell PLC plan to drill for oil in five locations deep under the Gulf of Mexico…. The drilling "would not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment," according to a press release from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement…Marvin Odum, president of Shell's U.S. subsidiary, said the company [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:06:35-09:00May 12th, 2011|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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USGS Calls NPR-A Gas Province – Barrons Notes Governor Parnell’s Push for Oil – WSJ Describes Declining TAPS Production – Alberta Streamlines Regulatory Process

Personal:  Last night we returned from a wonderful meeting with Kentucky Colonels in the Churchill Downs Museum during the Kentucky Derby (NGP Photos above) and continued our Derby photography project for the second year running.  We were disappointed, however, to return and find little written yet about the forum Alaska gas pipeline Federal Coordinator Larry Persily (NGP Photo-L) had organized in Anchorage last night.  The program contained a cast of excellent speakers and we certainly would have been there to report on the highlights had we not been on an airplane at the time. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:51-09:00May 11th, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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Persily Promotes Pipeline Perseverance – Point of Personal Privilege: Honoring Ron Miller

We exercise our personal privilege: to honor our friend Ron Miller, who passed away yesterday.  We are grateful for a good ADN story by Lisa Demer that pretty well describes why those who knew Ron, will remember him as a dedicated citizen who gave more than full measure for the good of his fellow man and whose life of professional competence and high integrity ended entirely too soon.   -dh ADN Compass Piece by Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily (NGP Photo).  It's time to once again show that Alaska can [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:51-09:00May 9th, 2011|Federal Coordinator, Personal|0 Comments
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Congressman Doc Hastings Moves OCS Legislation With Bipartisan Help – RDC Hears PacRim Coal’s Environmental Message – We’re Off To The Races!

 See Arctic Imperative Summit Agenda: June 19-21, Alyeska Resort, Anchorage "Mining and Fish" were the focus of the Resource Development Council for Alaska's (RDC) early morning meeting today in the Anchorage Convention Center when PacRim Coal's Project Manager Dan Graham (NGP Photo) inventoried the mining-fish relationships and history in Alaska.  See Video Here.  (Event Photos below.) WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2011 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1230, the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act, with a bipartisan vote of 266 to 149. Introduced by Natural Resources Committee Chairman [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 5th, 2011|Federal Progress, Personal|0 Comments
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Coastal Governors Coalition Attracts BOEMRE Attention As Stephen Harper’s Election Bodes Well For The Oilpatch

See Arctic Imperative Summit Agenda: June 19-21, Alyeska Resort, Anchorage Comment.  Yesterday (Scroll down) we reported on the creation Monday of a Coastal Governors Coalition preparing to meet the various challenges posed by federal government Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) policy.  Today, we offer readers this letter sent yesterday by Michael Bromwich (NGP Photo), Director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) to the four governors: Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry of Texas, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Alaska's Sean Parnell.  The letter stresses how [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 4th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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Sean Parnell Joins Other Governors In Coastal Governors Coalition – Congress Focuses On OCS This Week

Commentary: We have written here for over two years about overreach of the federal government affecting both on- and off-shore natural resource exploration and development.  That overreach affects virtually every human activity in the North--including oil and gas pipeline efforts.  Yesterday in Houston, coastal governors -- including Sean Parnell -- began to organize a joint effort to augment their individual federal overreach defenses.  -dh Houston Chronicle.  Rick Perry (NGP Photo) is joining governors from Alaska and other states bordering the Gulf of Mexico today in a bid to get coastal state [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 3rd, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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NYT Says Shell to Submit New Arctic Exploration Plan – SPE Keynote Speaker is Alaska Commissioner Cathy Foerster

Register here for the North American meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and hear Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commissioner Cathy Foerster's (NGP Photo-Above) Keynote address next Monday morning in Anchorage: "The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's Response to Macondo."  -dh Petroleum News Headlines:  Heavy oil starts (Full story) Following a lengthy delay after the completion of a $100 million heavy oil test facility on Alaska's North Slope, BP has now put a heavy oil test well into operation ..... Exxon's Thomson warning (Full story) ExxonMobil is suggesting its Point Thomson project [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:52-09:00May 2nd, 2011|Federal Progress|0 Comments
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ANS Natural Gas to Gasoline? – Tom Brennan Critiques Media – Harbour Misses Year over Year by 26 Seconds

PNA via ADN by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  With an increasing air of pessimism around the prospects for a pipeline to export natural gas from the North Slope, there is talk of alternatives for monetizing the vast quantities of gas stranded in Arctic Alaska. Point of Personal Privilege.  In order to keep up with northern energy news and our zippy readers, we, of course, need to remain on this side of the grass and reasonably fit.  To that end, l exercise almost every day and try while failing almost daily to eat [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:57:26-09:00May 1st, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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BOEMRE Seminar 3:30 Today in Anchorage/Barrow/Fairbanks/Juneau: Defining Risk In the Arctic (We hope they’ll cover the greatest risk: an economic malaise caused by the Federal government, not environmental damage from 21st Century Arctic explorers -dh)

 Here is an update for the time and location of the UAA Seminar today (Invitation Here) This afternoon, at 3:30pm, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Deputy Regional Director Jeffery Loman will be one of the presenters with the University of Alaska – North by 2020’ seminar series – Defining Risk in Arctic Coastal & Offshore Resource Development. His topic: Preventing Success from Breeding Complacency. The seminar continues to explore overarching concepts of assessment and mitigation of risks applied in different settings relevant for natural resource development.   Susan [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:53-09:00April 28th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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House Finance Hearing Tomorrow – Deadline to Comment on Ocean Use Tomorrow – Ziff Issues Updated Gas Supply Balance Report

 Reminding Readers: the Deadline Is TOMORROW: For Protecting Public Use of the Oceans and Great Lakes.  Use This Webpage to Easily Comment by the Friday Deadline On Another Example Of Federal Overreach -- As Washington Bosses Seek To Zone (Restrict) Ocean Use. Comment.  The House voted to improve the investment climate through tax reform (HB 110), a bill the Governor had recommended, but the Senate refused.  But some of us believe the Senate is acting foolishly, wanting to spend $2 billion this year on capital projects--as state revenues decline by 7% [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:54-09:00April 28th, 2011|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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