Russian tanker hits ice 300 miles from Nome
By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press, Anchorage Daily News, January 7th, 2012
VOYAGE TO NOME: Winter fuel oil delivery to coast would be a first.
A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Alaska city that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea.
Liquefied gas exports could fuel demise of TransCanada's Alaska-Alberta pipe dream
By Rebecca Penty, Calgary Herald, January 6, 2012
TransCanada Corp., is in talks with Alaska's top energy producers on plans to export natural gas in liquid form by tanker, as its long-standing vision to link the state's vast quantities of northern gas with the North American pipeline system increasingly appears to be in jeopardy.
Judge says Alaska pipeline has proven reserves to operate until 2065; puts value at more than $9 billion
Dermot Cole, Fairbanks News Miner, Dec 30, 2011
Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason of Anchorage issued a much-anticipated decision today that the trans-Alaska pipeline is worth about 9 times as much as the oil companies contend and there are enough proven oil reserves on the North Slope to keep it operating until 2065.
Oil line option will shift the risks to Alaska
By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, August 13, 2011
Latest plan for Northern Gateway project will be more expensive, but it has the significant advantage of support from the first nations
Let the Alaskans take the risk appears to be the idea behind a proposal being peddled as an alternative to the highly controversial Northern Gateway Project.
Why is a scientist at an offshore oil agency under investigation?
Patti Epler, Tony Hopfinger, Alaska Dispatch, Jul 28, 2011
News Alaska Power and the Bleeding of the Northwest
By Christopher Pollon, TheTyee.ca, 18 Feb 2011
Critics say plan to tie state to BC's power grid will enable shipping Canadian resources from US port.
ConocoPhillips shuttering Kenai LNG plant
Patti Epler, Alaska Dispatch, Feb 9, 2011
ConocoPhillips says it will mothball its Nikiski liquefied natural gas plant as soon as April, laying off about 60 company employees and contract workers.
The company told employees of its decision Wednesday rather than making a formal announcement, according to ConocoPhillips spokeswoman Natalie Lowman.
Leak at Pump Station 1 shuts down pipeline
By CASEY GROVE, Alaska Daily News, January 8th, 2011
The 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline remained shut down late Saturday after crews discovered a leak at Pump Station 1 on the North Slope earlier in the morning.
Alaska coal creates demand, opposition
By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK, Alaska Daily News, December 25th, 2010
One of Alaska's major exports -- coal -- has been racking up record shipments over the past couple of years.
New federal forecast leaves Alaska gas out of the picture
Patti Epler, Alaska Dispatch, Dec 22, 2010
Don't bank on a big natural gas line from the North Slope for another 25 years, a new federal forecast predicts.
Chances Dim for an Alaskan Gas Pipeline as Denali Bows Out
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York Times, May 17, 2011
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — One of two companies planning to build major natural gas pipelines in Alaska has dropped its bid, saying Tuesday that it had not obtained the agreements necessary to justify going forward.
Conoco gets mixed message on NPR-A project
By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK, Anchorage Daily News, December 15th, 2010
DISPUTE: Moving oil across the Colville River still to be resolved.
Federal regulators have issued a mixed ruling on Conoco Phillip's embattled plan to access a proposed drill site on its oil leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
TransCanada might lack pipeline agreements by year's end
Becky Bohrer, The Associated Press, Alaska Daily News, Dec. 7, 2010
JUNEAU — TransCanada Corp. says it might not meet its target of securing binding agreements by year’s end for a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline in Alaska, but the company remains optimistic about the prospects for its project.
Battle over Arctic Alaska refuge heats up again in Washington
By ERIKA BOLSTAD, Alaska Daily News, December 7th, 2010
OIL: Designation as wilderness or national monument would prevent future development.
Disabled cargo ship reaches Dutch Harbor
Anchorage Daily News, December 7th, 2010
A cargo ship disabled in the Bering Sea has reached Alaska's Dutch Harbor.
USGS report reduces estimate of oil in petroleum reserve
By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK, Alaska Daily News, October 27th, 2010
NPRA: Area rich in gas but holds only about a tenth of previous oil estimates.
Natural gas pipeline project moves forward
By RICHARD MAUER, Alaska Daily News, July 30, 2010
TRANSCANADA: Company says multiple shippers met deadline.
The proposed multibillion-dollar TransCanada gas pipeline from the North Slope took a step forward Friday with the announcement that potential shippers appear willing to pay to move gas to markets.
Rumored BP sale raises concerns
Bill Walker, Alaska Dispatch, July 16, 2010
It is being widely reported that various companies are considering acquiring BP.
Companies make case for more time to ship LNG
By ERIC LIDJI, Anchorage Daily News, June 20th, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The owners of the liquefied natural gas facility in Nikiski have formally asked the U.S. Department of Energy for more time to ship Alaska LNG to markets overseas.
Low flow could mean big problems for Alaska's pipeline
Rena Delbridge, Alaska Dispatch, March 6, 2010
Less and less oil is flowing through that engineering masterpiece that is the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, built in the 1970s to link the North Slope's liquid gold with insatiable markets.
Projections and the pipeline
By Christopher E. Smith, Oil and Gas Journal, Feb 15, 2010
I like statistics. I liked them on the back of baseball cards when I was a kid. I like them as produced by organizations such as the US Energy Information Administration and Canada's Energy Resource Conservation Board (ERCB) today.
Prominent Oil Critic Forced from University in Alaska
Andy Rowell, OilChange, January 22nd, 2010
There is something about Alaska that attracts a special kind of person. Many people move or live there for its rugged landscape and spectacular wildlife. They have America’s last true wilderness on their doorstep.
But this land of natural beauty has become tarnished, intoxicated and corrupted by oil.
