2-14-14

What: Alaska Miners Association 2014 Biennial Conference  When:  April 7—13, 2014 Where: Carlson Center: 2010 2nd Ave.  in Fairbanks, Alaska.  About: The event will feature a multitude of lectures and workshops from industry experts; field trips to the Pogo and Ft Knox Mines; and the opportunity to network with individuals involved with all aspects of Alaska’s mining industry. How: Register at www.alaskaminers.org, or by contacting Alicia Amberg: e-mail alicia@alaskaminers.org; tel: 907-563-9229   This morning, the Alaskanomics Blog posted and distributed (here) our February 10 commentary: "Has Alaska Become A Place Where A Deal Is A [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:42-09:00February 14th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-13-14 Jim Prentice Looks Beyond Obama For Energy Issue Coordination – Mystrom Comments On Alaska Oil Tax Reform

Canadian Press by Mike Blanchfield.  It's high time Canada started looking beyond the Obama era if it wants to push economic integration with the United States to a new level, says former Conservative cabinet minister Jim Prentice (NGP Photo).    ...   New gas discoveries in both countries have transformed North America's economic landscape, said Prentice, who urged the federal government to set its sights on 2017 when Barack Obama's successor arrives in the White House. Commentary.  "Tis the season!"  Yes, a legislative session in an election year tells us it's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:42-09:00February 13th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-12-14 Alaska LNG Challenges

Alliance Profile: M-I SWACO a Schlumberger Company: From Drilling through Production, Focused on our Customers Alaska LNG Project Faces Market Challenges...And Political Challenges Competition Perspectives: Part I (Part II, Part III) by  Dave Harbour Alaska and Mackenzie Delta producers are eyeing LNG exports to Asia as this generation's best option for monetizing Arctic gas.   Previous generations were close: with the Arctic Gas project in the 1970s (i.e. including TransCanada); displaced by the Alcan project in the 1980s (i.e. vigorously opposed by TransCanada); and the Alaska Highway gas pipeline project given new life with [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:42-09:00February 12th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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2-11-14 – Senator Murkowski Gives NARUC Policy Speech TODAY

For our Canadian readers: Want to become a temporary member of the National Energy Board in Calgary?  Knowing several of the Members and the Board's mission, we can say it would be both a high honor and experience of a lifetime to serve!  -dh This morning, Keith Kohl wrote a column for Energy and Capital revealing that the Lower 48 may be looking more closely at Alaska.  He said, in part, "We've become a nation of spoiled children when it comes to energy.  This is particularly true for those of us [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:49-09:00February 11th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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2-10-14 Has Alaska Become A Place Where “A Deal Is A Deal”?

Part I: Has Alaska Become A Place Where A Deal Is A Deal?   (Part II, Part III) In August, we'll find out Commentary by Dave Harbour   Today's Anchorage Daily News contains a 'news' article describing how Alaskan oil companies are "pouring" millions of dollars into an effort to stop repeal of the State's oil tax reform law. Citizens should be applauding the companies for upholding a law approved less than a year ago by Alaska's Governor and a majority of the elected representatives of the people.  A number of groups representing [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00February 10th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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2-8-14 Shell’s Loss is Alaska’s Loss

Bristol Bay Times by Jim Paulin.  Royal Dutch Shell's new chief executive said last week that the company is shelving its Alaska exploration program, at least for this year, a move that will impact the economy of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor. ... Unalaska served as Shell's base in 2011 and 2012, as the nearest port with year-round open water and well-developed port facilities, despite being about 1,000 miles from the offshore oil prospects to the north in the Arctic Ocean. "It's a pretty substantial hit," said Tom Enlow, of Unisea, which operates the [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:50:58-09:00February 9th, 2014|Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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2-7-14 Murkowski Featured on Fox News

Commentary: Yesterday, Alaska's Deputy Commissioner of Revenue, Bruce Tangeman (NGP Photo), provided updates on the, "More Alaska Production Act & Gasline Heads of Agreement".  Here is the video and a link to the presentation .pdf.  --  In a similar vein, yesterday we were queried by a Lower 48 oil and gas publication on challenges we perceive Governor Parnell faces.  See our response, below.  See EIA Comment.  -dh Juneau Empire Op-Ed by Rep. Eric Feige (NGP Photo).  As Sen. Mark Begich and Rep. Andy Josephson have recently opined about the Pebble Mine, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00February 7th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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2-6-14

Washington Times Commentator Robert Skinner wonders if Obama is breaking US-Canada tradition of energy cooperation.  See our earlier report of Robert Dillon's Keystone analysis.  -DH The Pebble Partnership (PLP) this week announced that Pebble CEO John Shively (NGP Photo) will assume the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors—a move that allows Shively to be a part of the strategic leadership team for advancing the project. With this move, PLP is appointing Tom Collier to the position of CEO for the company.  (Read more here.) VIDEO LEFT (audio link): Yesterday [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00February 6th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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2-4-14 Senator Murkowski’s Energy Committee Spokesman Analyzes O’Reilly/Obama Super Bowl Interview

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  Flint Hills Resources will cease refining operations at its North Pole refinery near Fairbanks this spring, the company announced Tuesday in a press release. Senate Energy Committee Spokesman, Robert Dillon, this morning provided us with an analysis of Keystone XL Pipeline labor benefits discussed during Bill O'Reilly's Super Bowl interview with President Barack Obama.  (Dillon's analysis follows:) In September 2009, President Obama declared, “I will not rest until anybody who’s looking for a job can find one – and I’m not talking about [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:50:47-09:00February 4th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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2-3-14 – Arctic Gas Leadership

Globe and Mail by Brent Jang.  Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) says the key to reviving dormant plans for the Mackenzie Valley pipeline will be to transport natural gas from the Arctic into British Columbia instead of Alberta.  Private-sector proponents of the Mackenzie line consider the NWT project to be currently uneconomic, based on market conditions of plentiful gas supplies in North America. Arctic Gas Leadership by Dave Harbour We have much respect for the 12th Premier of the Northwest Territories, Bob McLeod, and for his dedicated leadership of a huge, 440,000 square mile area that is about [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00February 3rd, 2014|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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1-30-14 Shell Delays 2014 Arctic Exploration

Alaska Dispatch Commentary by Craig Richards, advisor to Bill Walker (NGP Photo-l), candidate for governor.  Gov. Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo) new gas pipeline approach reminds me of Edmund Burke’s admonishment that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas today released its annual Five-Year Program of Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales for the period 2014 to 2018.  Governor proposes royalty oil sale extension for Tesoro. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today reiterated her call for the Obama administration [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 30th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-28-14 Marcus K. Singletary, Dearly Departed – State of The Union Is Threatened From Within

As our faithful readers prepare for tonight's State of the Union Speech, we also await rationale justifying the continuing overreaching jurisdiction of the White House.  Please review our editorial written two years ago.  We briefed readers on a big change: this president was altering the authority to take over the economy.  Former administrations planned to exercise broad economic powers only in the face of a national emergency.  The current White House added a provision enabling it to take dictatorial powers in 'peacetime' as well.  Perhaps a reading of our Executive [...]

By |2019-11-19T10:55:03-09:00January 28th, 2014|AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Personal|0 Comments
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1-27-14

Current Issues: Petroleum News, North of 60 Mining News, The Producers Last week, we reluctantly took a stand, criticizing the action of a Member of Alaska's Congressional Delegation.  We said, We do find it unsettling that a Member of Alaska's Congressional Delegation -- or any Member of Congress -- would become a Member of Congress, swear to uphold the Constitution, and then deny the due process guarantees ....  How could any lawmaker or administrator of law try to deny protections of the law and Constitution to any citizen? Energy Daily.  A [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 27th, 2014|Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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1-26-14

CBC News.  TransCanada investigating cause of pipeline blast.   Parnell's LNG project challenged by rival Walker and some ...Anchorage Daily News - Sean Parnell's newest proposal for bringing Alaska's North Slope natural gas to commercial markets finds a biting .... Sarah Palin's gas line legislation, ExxonMobil's Marty Massey testified "we are willing to take geologic risks, we are ...   Point of personal privilege: ADN, Now in its 25th season of hosting concerts, plays, musicals and other spectaculars in its three main halls, the PAC has undergone regular renovation and repair over the years, most famously a $5 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 26th, 2014|AGIA, Interstate Gas, Personal|0 Comments
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1-25-14 Parnell Introduces Gasline Legislation

ADN.  Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday introduced legislation to move ahead on his proposal to make the state a financial partner with Alaska's oil producers and pipeline company TransCanada in a liquefied natural gas project. The state already has signed commercial agreements with the industry players, and Senate Bill 138 aims to put that framework into law. The 49-page measure calls for a new subsidiary of the public Alaska Gasline Development Corporation to own shares in an LNG plant and marine terminal proposed for Nikiski where the liquefied gas would [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:42:37-09:00January 25th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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