The coronavirus pandemic has forced companies to do business differently and, in some cases, monitor their employees’ health closer than ever.
Energy & Mining
Red Dog Mine employees permitted to return to home communities
This week, Teck announced that employees are allowed to return to their home communities under the conditions that they test negative for COVID-19
In the time of social distancing, Alaska holds its first online oil and gas lease sale
It’s a new way of doing business for the state department that has long relied on in-person auctions and sealed bids.
Alaska’s natural gas pipeline plan gets federal environmental approval
Getting this approval helps make the project less risky for investors and partners to consider — because it defines the environmental impacts.
Environmental watchdogs are raising alarms over Pebble and other projects. But is anyone listening?
Environmentalists say the Trump administration is taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to advance Pebble as well as other Alaska projects while the public and the press are distracted.
More oil can flow from Alaska’s North Slope as global demand creeps back
The operator of the trans-Alaska pipeline is allowing oil companies to send more crude from the North Slope to Valdez as demand creeps back and economies reopen.
Y-K Delta tribes protest Donlin Gold in letter to mining company Novagold
Ten tribes have sent a letter protesting the proposed Donlin Gold mine to the two companies trying to build it in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Hilcorp, BP want many of their answers to state regulators’ questions kept confidential
As oil and gas company BP presses ahead with the sale of its Alaska business to privately-held Hilcorp, questions loom around how low oil prices are impacting the deal. On Monday, the companies released answers to a state agency that’s scrutinizing a key piece of the transaction, but with a catch: The companies and their…
ConocoPhillips to cut Alaska oil production by 100,000 barrels per day
ConocoPhillips says it will cut oil production in Alaska by about 100,000 barrels per day for the month of June. That’s about half of Conoco’s daily production in the state, and roughly a fifth of the crude that typically flows down the trans-Alaska pipeline.
‘The first glance at what’s coming’: Oilfield service companies alert state of more than 250 layoffs in Alaska
Four oilfield service companies have alerted the state of sweeping layoffs at their North Slope operations as the coronavirus crushes demand for fuel, oil prices crash and drilling activity declines.