10-30-14 NPR-A Comment Period Over Today; PLEASE COMMENT

NGP Reader Comment Here: Bob Hoffman;  Reed Christensen; Brian Benson, et. al.  (Read our commentary: "Has Commentary Gone Crazy?" Comment: While our loyal readers are suspect about Federal Comment Periods -- with good reason -- we cannot afford to let any record of comment be overbalanced with armies of environmental activists.  NGP Readers everywhere: Please Comment Before Today's Deadline On National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska Permit Application.  Full background here. Please pay special attention to this statement on the issue by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) as you're not likely to read about [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:52-09:00October 30th, 2014|AGDC, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-28-14 What Do Dandelions and Energy Have In Common? – National Petroleum Reserve Comment Due Tommorrow!

Consumer Energy Alliance Says "Alaska Is Key To American Energy Success!" NGP Readers Everywhere: Please Comment Before Thursday's Deadline On National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska Permit Application. Today, at great cost to state and local governments, bureaucrats gather in Anchorage to 'discuss' how to deal with invasive species. Meanwhile, we have shown how government managers coddle and cultivate the biggest invasive weed, the ubiquitous dandelion, which grows and multiplies under their noses, infesting northern forests and city landscapes alike.  We observe -- and have given ample proof throughout these archives (Search [...]

By |2019-03-25T09:10:25-09:00October 28th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-27-14 The Oil Supply – Demand Pendulum Is Forever Swinging To and Fro

Murkowski: Global Oil Outages Can Provide “Strategic Warning” of Threats to Stability Top Energy Committee Republican Warns of Petroleum Production Losses in Libya, Yemen, and Elsewhere U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), today released a report surveying petroleum production outages around the world, data which could be used to provide strategic warning of threats to international security. “Losses in oil production often reflect instability,” Murkowski said. “Energy reporting clearly pointed to Iraq’s deteriorating security years before the current collapse and provides us strategic warning of violence in other countries and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:52-09:00October 27th, 2014|Commentary, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-17-14 Pipeline Hopes Spring Eternal

Pipeline Hopes Spring Eternal by Dave Harbour CBC News.  Premier Brian Gallant will use a four-day trip to Alberta to meet with business and political leaders to show his new government’s support for the Energy East pipeline. Gallant and Energy Minister Donald Arseneault will leave for Alberta on Sunday and he will meet with Premier Jim Prentice, TransCanada Corp. officials and spend time drumming up possible investment opportunities ​The Calgary Herald provides a report by the Canadian Press' Ross Marowitz this morning describing opposition in Quebec originating from the province's largest [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:53-09:00October 17th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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10-14-14 Dandelions and Energy – National Poll Supports Offshore Oil & Gas

  How Government Deals With One Invasive Species, The Dandelion by Dave Harbour (Point of personal privilege) This is, admittedly, a pet peeve.  The only way I could relate the dandelion invasion to our study of energy, is to make a point that bureaucracies will never be as efficient with public dollars as citizens are with family dollars.  In Alaska, oil pays most of the cost of state government while families pay virtually nothing in support of their state government benefits. As a homeowner, I go out and dig up every [...]

By |2019-03-26T15:17:06-09:00October 14th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-11-14 “Can You Trust The US?”

WSJ Opinion: Can You Trust The US? Our Saturday Commentary: Americans cannot trust the US Administration (e.g. Alaska and Lower 48 Federal Land Restrictions and Poor Energy Policies, Eric Holder Malfeasance; Misapplication of ESA, CWA, CAA; IRS; NSA; VA; AP; EPA; Benghazi; Ebola; Sickening Open Border Policy; Prisoner Trade: One Traitor for Several Terrorists; Fast and Furious; Obamacare Lies; US Marine Rotting In Mexican Jail; Cowardly 'Red Line' Syrian Policy, Unsustainable National Debt, Emasculation of Military Strength, Pro-Muslim bias, Anti-Israel bias, Failure To Save America's ISIS-slaughtered Kurdish allies, Alliance With Senate Democrats To Kill All Pro-Job, Pro-Economy House Bills, [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:43:42-09:00October 11th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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10-8-14 How can low oil prices produce world chaos?

Oil & Energy by Dr. Kent Moors.  How Falling Oil Prices Could Trigger an “Unpredictable and Dangerous Mess” Yesterday, ConocoPhillips announced that it has completed five-year, Alaska North Slope contracts with URS Corporation, CH2M HILL, and ASRC Energy Services.  See the full news release details here. From the office of House Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) comes this alert of interest to most natural resource companies doing business in Alaska and the American West.  We feature it in this Northern energy webpage because it demonstrates the broad, deep and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:54-09:00October 8th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|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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9-24-14

  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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9-22-14

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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9-11-14 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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9-10-14 The Day Before 9-11, “Lest We Forget”

Hastings: Admin’s Response to Oversight Requests Shameful .  “Either the  Administration is incompetent or it is going out of its way to expend time and money to withhold information from Congress” ​ WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee oversight hearing entitled “The Status of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Responses to Committee Subpoenas and the Continued Lack of Transparency about Its Implementation and Enforcement of American Wildlife Laws, and Oversight of the Department of the Interior’s Solicitor’s [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 10th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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9-9-14 Begich – Sullivan Senate Race Makes National Headlines

Found!  Lost ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition near King William Island.... (Stan Rogers Audio-Ballad) This Senate Race Is All About Energy! by Dave Harbour ​(See Epilog Added 9-10-14, One Day Before 9-11 Anniversary) Yesterday, we found where the Wall Street Journal recently focused on the Mark Begich (NGP Photo-L) - Dan Sullivan ​(NGP Photo-R) U.S. Senate race.  We mention that race here, because its outcome will affect energy policy in Alaska--and elsewhere.  In recent years, the U.S. Senate has consistently failed to improve federal energy policies affecting Alaska, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 9th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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9-6-14 Jim Prentice Rises….

We first met Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) in Calgary while chairing the Arctic Gas Symposium several years ago.  We visited together over lunch and then came the presentations.  After following his career for nearly a decade we believe that as Premier of Alberta, his service would continue to reflect well on the citizens and his own considerable abilities.  We further believe that he has the experience and judgment required for a future Prime Minister.  Following is today's CBC story by Michelle Bellefontaine & Caitlin Hanson.  -dh CBC.  Jim Prentice has [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00September 7th, 2014|Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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9-4-14 Mining and Oil & Gas Have Much In Common: Sustaining Canadian & American Lifestyles

Mining.com.  Here, "Visual Capitalist" helps us to grasp the enormous breadth, depth and wealth of Canada's Oil Sands, which makes a conduit (or, pipeline conduits) through the United States and other Canadian provinces even more valuable to those areas due to associated jobs and property tax benefits.   Citizens of both states and provinces should not be fooled by environmental activist tomfoolery which seeks to isolate and lock up that wealth for both current and future generations.  Demonizing and then snapping a ball and chain around the legs of reasonable natural resource [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 4th, 2014|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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