Canadian Press.  As Kinder Morgan launches a series of information sessions in the Metro Vancouver area about the proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, city officials are exploring whether Vancouver can force the Texas-based company to increase its liability coverage in kind. The Alaska House of Representatives announced its new organization: The Alaska House Majority Caucus has organized for the 28th Alaska Legislature. Representative Mike Chenault (NGP Photo) , R-Nikiski, returns for a third term as House Speaker. Representative Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage is the new Majority Leader, and Representative Craig [...]

To assist voting Alaskans, here is a Prosperity Alaska candidate evaluation which is a good guide. From Josh Wilson (NGP Photo), Commonwealth North.  Thank you again to Colleen Starring (NGP Photo) for her excellent presentation at our meeting last week. Her PowerPoint presentation is now available on the Commonwealth North website.  Our next meeting will be this Friday, November 9 from 12-1 at CIRI located at 2525 C Street with Larry Persily, Federal Coordinator, Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, who will give an update on the viability of a large diameter gas [...]

CBC: NEB Reacts to TransCanada Whistleblower. Registration is now available for RDC's 33rd Annual Alaska Resources Conference, being held  Wednesday and Thursday, November 14-15, at the Dena'ina Civic & Convention Center in Anchorage.  Over 1,000 people are expected to attend RDC's annual conference, including decision-makers from across all resource industries, support sectors, Native corporations, federal, state, and local government officials, as well as educators and students. FOR OUR READERS WITH HOUSTON OFFICES: Today, there will be a press conference featuring Consumer Energy Alliance President David Holt (NGP Photo) and Houston City Council Member Andrew Burks to preview Houston’s 2nd Annual Energy Day [...]

Parnell, Sullivan promote Alaska LNG in Asia -  Alaskajournal.com - Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-R) and state Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo) have been in Japan and Korea in the last two weeks, drumming up interest in a large Alaska liquefied natural gas project. North Slope producers and TransCanada Corp., a gas pipeline ... Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  Great Bear’s results so far from its Alcor No. 1 shale oil test well on Alaska’s North Slope have met expectations for finding oil in North Slope source rocks, Ed Duncan (NGP Photo), the company’s president and CEO, [...]

ADN/AP by Becky Bohrer. It is Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo) second state-sponsored overseas trip as governor, and it comes as Alaska awaits word on progress toward advancing a liquefied natural gas project that would allow for exports to the Pacific Rim. Parnell said he plans to make a "compelling case" for Alaska gas in meetings with government officials, and utility company and business leaders in South Korea and Japan. He said he will explain the progress that's been made toward commercializing Alaska's North Slope gas and emphasize the comparative advantage Alaska [...]

On September 5, 2012, TransCanada Corp. (TRP-NYSE) submitted a revised routing for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska as part of its effort to win state approval to build the line and eventually a Presidential Permit for construction. (Energy Investment Banking, by Allen Brooks) ADN/AP by Dan Joling.  Moving ice may keep a Royal Dutch Shell petroleum drill ship away from a Chukchi Sea prospect for several days.  Today's Notes and Links: Is Alaska Competitive? When we received the latest paper issue of Petroleum News, the Bakken Section seemed to [...]

Lest We Forget.... ADN/AP by Dan Joling.  Royal Dutch Shell halted drilling in the Chukchi Sea on Monday -- one day after it began -- because of sea ice moving toward the company's drill ship off Alaska.  Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith (NPG Photo) said drilling was stopped as a precautionary measure in accordance with its ice management plan. Vancouver Sun by Gordon Hamilton.  Pipeline operator Spectra Energy is teaming up with British natural gas giant BG Group to build an 850-kilometre natural gas pipeline from northeastern B.C. to Prince Rupert [...]

ADN by Lisa Demer.  "Today marks the culmination of Shell's six-year effort to explore for potentially significant oil and gas reserves, which are believed to lie under Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf," the company said in a statement.   ...   "Happy, happy, happy," said Pete Slaiby (NGP Photo), Shell's vice president for Alaska. He gave a series of interviews Saturday to reporters from around the country following Shell's difficulties and progress.  "This is such a big deal," he said. "It is opening up potentially a new chapter in Alaska's oil [...]