The violations concern injections of miscible gas, a substance that blends with oil to enhance oil recovery.
North Slope
Willow opponents try again, this time in a US appeals court, to block the ConocoPhillips project
ConocoPhillips has already begun to develop Willow, but environmental organizations and a group of Inupiat people are still trying to stop it.
Alaska is short on gravel and long on development projects
The state’s North Slope communities need rocks, and they’re hard to come by.
Federal judge rejects legal challenge to ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project
The massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope can move forward, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled Thursday.
Chum salmon are spawning in North Slope rivers, University of Alaska researchers find
A University of Alaska Fairbanks team last month found about 100 chum salmon that were spawning or had just spawned in the Anaktuvuk and Itkillik rivers.
Haaland cancels leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge: ‘Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime’
No company was close to drilling in the refuge. Two companies that bought leases during the Trump administration later gave them up.
ConocoPhillips says court case is likely do-or-die for Willow Arctic oil project
Willow would be the first large project constructed in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and ConocoPhillips’ 30-year lease was signed in 1999.
State appeals federal court ruling that allows ConocoPhillips to keep Willow drilling data secret
In March, a judge determined that a federal law preempts a state law that requires North Slope companies to make data publicly available.
ConocoPhillips faces potential fine of $914,000 for Arctic gas leak
The leak at Alpine continued for days before workers got control of it.
Hilcorp fined again for deviating from permit at Milne Point
The order says Hilcorp has a track record of regulatory non-compliance that includes more than 60 enforcement actions.