10-2-14

Fairbanks News Miner Op-Ed by Susan Bell.  Thanks to the Alaska Industrial Development Authority’s (AIDEA) lead role on Gov. Parnell’s Interior Energy Project, lower energy costs are in sight. Working closely with the Alaska Energy Authority and local utilities to develop North Slope gas, AIDEA’s efforts will significantly increase access to lower cost natural gas in the near future. Expansion of the Fairbanks distribution system and construction of the North Slope pad are significant and visible project milestones.   PennEnergy TransCanada Corp. sells stake in Bison Pipeline for US$215 million Calgary Herald, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:55-09:00October 2nd, 2014|Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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9-29-14

ADN by Alex DeMaban.  Scott Hawkins (NGP Photo), founder of Prosperity Alaska, believes the voting public should not decide complex tax questions or other measures that increase regulations or permitting of businesses.   “Oil taxation is an incredibly technical, complex, arcane subject. It does not belong on the ballot,” said Hawkins, president of Advanced Supply Chain International in Anchorage, providing support to oil and gas, mining and other industries. “Our elected officials spent years and thousands of hours in hearings and hired experts and oil taxatiConon is not a suitable [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:55-09:00September 29th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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9-27-14 Lower 48 LNG Projects Move Ahead

JD SUPRA BUSINESS ADIVSOR.  Shortly after finalizing its revised procedures for reviewing pending liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) export applications, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued final authorizations for two facilities to export LNG to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement with the United States (“non-FTA countries”).   *** The DOE’s revised procedures apply only to exports from the lower-48 states and explicitly exclude Alaska, given the potential utility of issuing conditional authorizations for unique Alaskan projects.              More here.....

By |2016-03-13T03:56:30-09:00September 28th, 2014|Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-26-14 “Balderdash” Or Not, That Is The Question!

See This Week's Petroleum News Stories Here Petroleum News Story by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  In a Sept. 15 letter to state Rep. Doug Isaacson, Brad Janorschke, general manager of Homer Electric Association, said that his utility had quit the Alaska Railbelt Cooperative and Electric Co., or ARCTEC, in early 2013 because, rather than pursuing cost-saving projects that would jointly benefit ARCTEC’s member utilities, ARCTEC’s sole purpose seemed to have become lobbying for grant funding from the state Legislature. A desire of some ARCTEC members to hire a CEO for [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:30-09:00September 26th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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9-25-14

WSJ: Alaska's Lessons For The Keystone XL Pipeline IOGCC's Gerry Baker reminds readers to register for the Columbus, Ohio meeting just weeks away.   Sister organization, NARUC, reminds us of its 126th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, coming in November.   Resolutions of both organizations go to State and DC Policy makers so energy company participation is mission essential.  -dh TODAY'S GASLINE MEETING IN FAIRBANKS: The Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) Community Advisory Council will hold its monthly meeting on September 25, 2014 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in Fairbanks. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:56-09:00September 25th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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9-24-14

  Calgary Herald Midstream startup building first gas plant Calgary Herald, By Dan Healing, ... to remove condensate from its liquids-rich gas so it qualifies for transport in a dry gas pipeline.       CBC.ca TransCanada work on St. Lawrence port suspended by Quebec court order CBC.ca, The TransCanada Energy East pipeline project includes converting an existing naturalgas pipeline to an oil transportation pipeline. This project is ... Petroleum News by Kristen Nelson.   Three projects are under way to deliver North Slope natural gas to Alaskans - and on three different scales and timelines. Personal note: [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:56-09:00September 24th, 2014|AGDC, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Personal|0 Comments
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9-23-14

Pipeline stake expected to fuel Veresen LNG project, Calgary Herald, By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald September 22, 2014 7:37 PM ... US pipeline investment will better connect U.S. Rockies gas with Veresen Inc.'s ... Alaska Dispatch News by Dermot Cole.  The key question mark about the state-backed effort to expand natural gas distribution in Fairbanks remains the price, with the release of new information put off until the end of the year. The staff and board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority say the revised timetable on the gas trucking plan has nothing to do with the fall election, but is a consequence of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:08-09:00September 23rd, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-22-14

Alaska Senator Makes Hysterical Plea For Money Today! This morning our friend, Pedro van Meurs (NGP Photo) writes us that: "My well known course World Fiscal Systems for Oil and Gas is scheduled to take place again this year in Dubai during the week November 16 – 20, 2014.    "The course provides an overview of all fiscal terms and conditions for oil and gas licenses, leases, concessions, PSCs and risk service contracts around the world, including detailed analysis of economic results and government take.  The course will also focus on the many [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:08-09:00September 22nd, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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9-20-14

The Department of Natural Resources is inviting the public to attend community meetings and provide input on its proposed Eastern Tanana Area Plan (ETAP).  When adopted, ETAP will serve as the basis for the management of state lands and waters on approximately 6.8 million acres of state-owned and state-selected land distributed throughout the Tanana River Valley and the surrounding uplands and the Fairbanks North Star Borough north of the Tanana River.  Point of personal privilege.  We were honored today to meet the Honorable Marcelo Cabrera, Mayor of Cuenca, Ecuador, presiding over [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:09-09:00September 20th, 2014|Personal|0 Comments
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9-11-14

FERC Approves Alaska LNG Project Pre-filing Request.   Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) said yesterday. "Alaska is well-positioned to bring gas to Alaskans and markets beyond." See Pipelines International Report.  -dh *     *     * We consider this Alaska Journal of Commerce piece by Tim Bradner to be the most enlightening analysis to date of the Alaska LNG Project perspectives of Governor Sean Parnell and his challenger, Valdez lawyer Bill Walker (NGP Photo).  -dh Calgary Herald by James Wood.  Alberta’s new point man in Washington believes the tide is [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:55:25-09:00September 19th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-17-14 Comment Now On EPA Overreach In Alaska. Deadline Friday!

Comment Before Friday On 1) EPA's Overreaching Jurisdiction, 2) Erosion Of America's Rule Of Law, And 3) Attack On Our Constitutional Right Of Due Process.  All Americans In General And Particularly Every Alaskan Are Entitled To Be Outraged!  Reference: Our many editorials on this issue, including this one, and this.  Is This The Country The Founders And So Many Generations Have Loved, Then Defended With "...Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor?"  -dh From Deantha Crockett (NGP Photo), Executive Director of the Alaska Miners Association, comes this action request which we heartily endorse: Friday, September [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:09-09:00September 17th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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9-15-14

News Miner by Robin Wood.  The Tanana River, Bassett Army Community Hospital and parts of the University of Alaska Fairbanks are all visible from one unlikely location — the top of Cell One at the Fairbanks North Star Borough Solid Waste Facility, commonly called the landfill. Cell One is now closed and covered in layers of gravel, liners, topsoil and grass. There are 10 wells bored into the 19-acre cell that holds 1.2 million cubic yards of waste. The wells will collect methane for power generation as the cell decomposes. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:09-09:00September 15th, 2014|Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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9-13-14

AGDC Chair to speak at Chamber Luncheon ~ Sep 18, Delta News Web, John Burns, Chairman of the Board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) will be the guest speaker at the September Chamber of ...

By |2016-03-13T03:55:25-09:00September 14th, 2014|AGDC, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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Alaska Gas Project Moves Foreward

Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  Step by step, the Alaska LNG Project is moving forward. The project made a big advance Sept. 5 with its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to begin a pre-filing process for the project.  Earlier this summer an application was submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy for a license to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Pre-Front End Engineering and Design work, or pre-FEED, which will cost about half a billion dollars, also got underway this summer.

By |2016-03-13T03:57:24-09:00September 13th, 2014|AGDC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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9-11-14 ANOTHER NORTHWEST PASSAGE MAY BE VIABLE

9-11-13 "Lest We Forget, Year After Year and Today In 2014 We Remember" - Northern Gas Pipelines 9-2001 Instead of Mackenzie Delta natural gas flowing south, as had been the NWT/Yukon/Alberta dream for 40 years, Oil Sands bitumen flowing north may be one of the answers to Arctic Canada's economic challenges.  -dh CBC.  Sending oilsands bitumen north through N.W.T. to a port in the Arctic is feasible, according to a study commissioned last year by Alberta. Dubbed the Arctic Gateway Pipeline, the proposed link would ship bitumen along the Mackenzie Valley [...]

By |2018-09-11T06:12:06-09:00September 11th, 2014|Commentary|0 Comments
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