EPA officials and Sen. Dan Sullivan said the move would help fight rising fuel prices.
North Slope
Under new agreement, federal government limits obstacles to oil leasing in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
Bureau of Land Management says it will not ‘unreasonably limit development’ of oil and gas in the refuge until many facilities are built.
Juneau Assembly passes resolution to support homeporting second Coast Guard icebreaker
The resolution follows an announcement by the Coast Guard last month that three new icebreakers would be homeported in Alaska — two in Kodiak and one in Seward.
ANWR lease sale draws $3.7M in winning bids, but major oil and gas players stay home
“The players who would have the billions of dollars to explore, develop, produce are not bidding,” said longtime Alaska oil and gas industry observer Larry Persily. “They’re not at the table, they have no appetite for it.”
Appeals court says Alaska has the right to make ConocoPhillips oil well data public
The state of Alaska has the right to make public data from exploration wells drilled by ConocoPhillips in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, an appeals court has ruled. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, issued Wednesday, overturns a 2023 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason that allowed well data to remain under…
Oil industry has an idea to speed permitting on western Arctic leases. BLM likes it.
Rather than study each proposal in the NPR-A, the industry wants the feds to study one and grant permits for all similar proposals. Foes deride the “cookie-cutter” approach.