6-29-20 Letter to the “Father Of The Ill-Begotten Fair Share Oil Tax Proposal”
(A letter from an unemployed oil industry employee to Robin Brena, the lawyer who created a voters initiative to increase oil industry taxes. The letter was printed by the Alaska Support Industry Alliance.) Dear Mr. Brena: I just lost my job on the Slope, and don’t know when or if I’ll get back on. I used to feel lucky [...]
7-9-15
Washington Post Magazine, by Julia Duin. ... This was Alice Rogoff (NGP Photo), wife of billionaire David Rubenstein and a former Washington business executive turned owner and publisher of Alaska’s largest newspaper. Rogoff had spent [...]
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7-8-15 Larry Persily’s Outstanding Gas Pipeline/LNG Project Essay
Pipeline Building Is A Choreography Of Coordinated Steps By Larry Persily lpersily@kpb.us July 7, 2015 Other recent Persily work (This update, provided by Larry Persily (NGP Photo) of the Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor’s office, is part of an [...]
7-7-15 Judge Clears The Way For 2015 Arctic Exploration
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7-6-15 Read and Weep!
Bloomberg story and video on oil price trends, by Asjylyn Loder and Bradley Olson READ AND WEEP. The insurance protecting shale drillers against plummeting prices has become so crucial that for one company, SandRidge Energy Inc., payments from the [...]
7-5-15
Petroleum News. Officials from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard have met in Juneau to discuss Arctic oil spill preparedness and the coordination of oil spill incident management strategies, [...]
7-4-15
Petroleum News. Gov. Bill Walker said June 29 that the state will join North Dakota and 10 other states in a challenge to the recently finalized “waters of the United States” rule. WOTUS, adopted by [...]
7-3-15
Petroleum News. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a letter of authorization, allowing the minor, unintended disturbance of walrus and polar bears during Shell’s planned exploration drilling in the Chukchi Sea this year. Shell has [...]
6-24-15
Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop commented this morning on a decision by the U.S. District Court of Wyoming to grant a stay of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) hydraulic fracturing rule. As a [...]
6-15-15
Petroleum News. Oil Patch Bits: Bell acquires operations manager - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) F. Robert Bell and Associates announced that Frank Thomas “FT” Bell has returned to the firm and will fill the new position [...]
6-14-15 Government Gas Distribution System Update
Petroleum News. Request for proposals for Interior Gas Project due Aug. 3 - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) The Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority has issued a request for proposals for the Interior Energy Project, with proposals [...]