BP, which has been a major employer in Alaska for decades, is planning to sell all of its assets in the state to Hilcorp, a smaller, private company.
North Slope
Alaska governor creates oversight committee for BP sale
The purpose is to make sure the State of Alaska and its people are represented as the sale moves forward.
Q&A: Washington Post correspondent talks about reporting on climate change on the North Slope
The Washington Post made the North Slope village of Nuiqsut front page news under a provocative headline: “Alaska’s warming, but can’t quit big oil.”
Longstanding tensions underlie Arctic Slope Regional Corporation’s withdrawal from AFN
Long before it announced its withdrawal from AFN, there were signs of a schism between ASRC and the most influential Native advocacy group.
Arctic Slope Regional Corp. to leave the Alaska Federation of Natives
Arctic Slope Regional Corp. would be the only Alaska Native corporation in the state not to be a member of the Alaska Federation of Natives.
A Colorado wildcatter found a huge new North Slope oil field. Now it’s buying up new federal leases in Alaska.
Armstrong Oil and Gas, which found and then sold a massive field on Alaska’s North Slope, just bought up about 1 million acres in oil leases in the National Petroleum Reserve.
A new report sheds more light on how climate change is impacting Alaska Native villages
A recent report compiled by the Army Corps of Engineers and researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks documents erosion and other environmental threats facing communities in rural Alaska.
Hilcorp paid a $25,000 fine after a worker died last year on its North Slope drilling rig
An internal investigation found that the drill operator was distracted and that there were “contradictory requirements” when it came to workers’ exposure to overhead loads.
A new oil boom on Alaska’s North Slope is encircling a village, and residents have raised a red flag
A major proposed North Slope oil project is running into local opposition from residents of the village of Nuiqsut, who are already partially surrounded by development and wary of more.
Utqiaġvik whalers finally land bowhead nearly two months into season
Some veteran whalers say the absence of the marine mammals has been unprecedented, amid record-setting air and water temperatures.