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Valdez Star
March 29, 2018
After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which were eventually paid with earnings from an oil-wealth fund that's grown to about $65 billion through investments. Times were so good, the state in 1980 repealed its personal income tax, a decision that has beenÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
March 29, 2018
BP netted $830 million from its North Slope operations in 2017 but the company's Alaska leaders contend the net income figure shrinks to $118 million when all of the work it does in the state is factored in against a backdrop of $543 million in taxes and royalties paid to the State of Alaska. Most of the $830ÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
March 28, 2018
Sean Parnell of playing election-year politics for his moves to advance the Alaska LNG Project as an equity consortium with the three major North Slope producers and TransCanada. Now as Walker pursues reelection his surrogates are asking critics of his plan to be quiet about the path he's pursuing andÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
March 28, 2018
Signs are seen guiding the way over ice roads to ConocoPhillips projects in the in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope. The company is nearing production from one project in the NPR-A and got good news from regulators on another project just a few miles away on March 22.
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 28, 2018
“Literally, if you line up the big fields up on the North Slope, this probably ranks third behind Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk,” Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack said. Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk, of course, are the giant oil fields responsible for making Alaska the oil state it isÃÂ ...
KTVA
March 28, 2018
A 3-year-old boy has died after a Sunday shooting in Alaska's northernmost city, according to police in Utqiagvik. A report of the shooting, at a residence in the community formerly known as Barrow, came in just before 5 p.m. Sunday according to a statement from the North Slope Borough Police Department. “The juvenileÃÂ ...
KTUU.com
March 27, 2018
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A 3-year-old child from the North Slope community of Utqiaġvik has died from a gunshot wound, suffered at a home Sunday evening. According to David Fauske, Director of Government and External Affairs for the North Slope Borough, police responded to a local residence atÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 27, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 3-year old died following a shooting in a home in the North Slope community of Utqiagvik (oot-GAR'-vik). North Slope Borough spokesman David Fauske says borough police shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday responded to the home. Anchorage television station KTUU reportsÃÂ ...
Hakai Magazine
March 27, 2018
The Toolik Field Station on Alaska's North Slope, as seen from an approaching Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter. Photo by Thomas Nash/High ... Rose Cory in front of the thermokarst of Wolverine Lake, near the Toolik Lake Research Natural Area on the North Slope of Alaska. Cory, an aquatic geochemistÃÂ ...
Anchorage Daily News
March 27, 2018
A 3-year-old boy was shot at an Utqiagvik residence Sunday and died of his injuries on a medevac flight to Anchorage, North Slope Borough police say ... The child, who was not identified, was first transported to Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital by the North Slope Borough Fire Department, police saidÃÂ ...
Juneau Empire
March 27, 2018
After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which eventually were paid with earnings from an oil-wealth fund that's grown to about $65 billion through investments. Times were so good, the state in 1980 repealed its personal income tax, a decision that has beenÃÂ ...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 27, 2018
After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which eventually were paid with earnings from an oil-wealth fund that's grown to about $65 billion through investments. Times were so good, the state in 1980 repealed its personal income tax, a decision that has beenÃÂ ...
The Seattle Times
March 26, 2018
But those yearly checks have gotten smaller, and could undergo a massive change, as Alaska struggles to pay state troopers and fix roads amid years of low oil prices. After oil started flowing from Alaska's North Slope in the late 1970s, so did the checks, which eventually were paid with earnings from anÃÂ ...
KTUU.com
March 26, 2018
Northern Alaska remains one location that is consistently above average. The CPC says the next three months have a 55 percent of being above normal across the North Slope. The Interior, West Coast, Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians have a 37 to 45 percent chance of being warmer than normal. There'sÃÂ ...
Farmington Daily Times
March 25, 2018
Despite congressional approval, oil and gas drilling in Alaska's ANWR is still years away ... signed an order last May calling for an update of assessments of the recoverable oil and natural gas resources in Alaska's North Slope, including the 1.5-million-acre area of ANWR where drilling will be allowed.
Anchorage Daily News
March 24, 2018
Bill Walker, center left, smiles after the signing of the joint development agreement for an Alaska gas line in Beijing on Nov. 9. (Photo provided by ... Bill Walker's state-owned North Slope gas line would be the most audacious venture into private industry an American state has ever made. It also has theÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 16, 2018
The North Slope Borough, in an effort to lower the cost of living in the region, plans to build 300 miles of snow roads in the coming days so residents in two ... The borough hopes to expand the frosty road network in future winters, linking additional villages such as Wainwright to the Alaska road system.
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 7, 2018
Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt addresses the North Slope Borough Assembly in Utqiagvik March 6, 2018. (Photo by Ravenna Koenig/Alaska's Energy Desk). A high-profile guest was in attendance at the North Slope Borough Assembly meeting in Utqiaġvik Tuesday. The InteriorÃÂ ...
E&P
December 31, 1999
The warmest winter on record in Arctic Alaska has hit local oil production, said officials from the U.S. state, as temperatures hampered industrial machinery designed to optimize output when conditions are most frigid. Production of the North Slope grade of crude oil has averaged about 518,000 barrels perÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
December 31, 1999
In a single day this month, the North Slope Borough lost an assistant attorney and its police chief when they were fired by the administration. ... As the Arctic Sounder previously reported, Alaska Police Standards Council Executive Director Bob Griffiths said he was informed of the decision and given theÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 27, 2018
Part of the issue is warm temperatures: Brettshneider said parts of Western Alaska and the North Slope, including St. Paul, Kotzebue and Utqiagvik, are having their warmest winter on record. “You have warm air running over record warm water,” Brettschneider said. “It's really hard to get sea ice to form inÃÂ ...
Juneau Empire
February 27, 2018
Sullivan framed his speech around the idea that Alaska today resembles the Alaska of 1969, after the enormous North Slope oil lease sale, but before construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. “I believe so much like today and like then, seems right around the corner,” he said. “There is optimism, there isÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 27, 2018
During that time, she's excavated many different sites across the North Slope. And increasingly, that work has become a race against the clock. “I mean it's like burning down a library basically,” Jensen said. “If you see a library burning, you should at least try and get the rare books out.” In the Alaskan Arctic,ÃÂ ...
KTOO
February 27, 2018
Part of the issue is warm temperatures: Brettshneider said parts of Western Alaska and the North Slope, including St. Paul, Kotzebue and Utqiagvik, are having their warmest winter on record. “You have warm air running over record warm water,” he said. “It's really hard to get sea ice to form in that situation.”.
Flathead Beacon
February 21, 2018
Previously dependent for over 40 years on tankers carrying Alaskan crude from the North Slope via Valdez, Bakken crude now fills a supply gap for Seattle's market. So, on the round trip between Williston to Anacortes, these trains run hundreds of miles not only alongside the Flathead, but also the Missouri,ÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
February 21, 2018
Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve was an obvious place to start; the 23 million-acre chunk of land on the state's North Slope is owned by the federal government and is believed to contain large oil and gas deposits. During the Obama administration, ecologically sensitive portions of the reserve wereÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
February 21, 2018
The Walker administration wants the Legislature to approve a $10 million budget request that would allow Alaska to partner with other entities on a seismic ... A seismic shoot is expected to cost more than $10 million, so the state will seek partners that could include oil companies, the North Slope Borough,ÃÂ ...
High Country News
February 19, 2018
Like a giant dragonfly, the chopper skims over undulating swaths of tussocky tundra, then touches down at Wolverine Lake, one of a swarm of kettle lakes near the Toolik Field Station on Alaska's North Slope. Even before the blades stop spinning, Rose Cory, an aquatic geochemist from the University ofÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 15, 2018
(Alaska's Energy Desk/ Ravenna Koenig). “He does not remember meeting me,” Nancy Grant says of her first encounter with her now-husband, Andrew Grant. “I do, too!” he insists. They can both agree, however, that they met while working for the North Slope Borough School District back in 2002. TodayÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
February 15, 2018
5 to drill two exploration wells in a remote portion of the southern North Slope near the upper Kuparuk River. Working under its operating subsidiary Accumulate Energy Alaska Inc., the company plans to drill and test the Bravo-1 and Charlie-1 oil exploration wells by April 30, according to its exploration planÃÂ ...
Hydrocarbons Technology
February 15, 2018
Oil Search has completed the previously announced $400m acquisition of interests in Alaska North Slope assets in the US from Armstrong Energy and GMT Exploration Company. The closure of the transaction comes after the receipt of approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.
Seattle Times
February 9, 2018
On Alaska's North Slope, in the oil fields around Deadhorse, it's hard to imagine stricter rules. Any wayward drop of oil from a truck's engine is caught by a yellow plastic basin placed underneath. For traction on ice, ground-up walnut shells are used in place of sand or salt. Every shop, housing complex,ÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
February 6, 2018
UTQIAGVIK—The Trump administration's vision for American “energy dominance” has big implications for Alaska, and this winter some of them became more concrete. In December, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was opened to oil drilling. And in January the Interior Department released a new draftÃÂ ...
Nasdaq
February 5, 2018
In another deal, ConocoPhillips acquired stake in Western North Slope of Alaska from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation APC . About the Divestment ... Notably, ConocoPhillips is investing in new projects in the North Slope region like GMT-1 and GMT-2, which have bright future. While GMT-1 is in its finalÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 5, 2018
The North Slope Borough's main building in Utqiaġvik. (Photo by Ravenna Koenig/ Alaska's Energy Desk). The Trump administration's vision for American “energy dominance” has big implications for Alaska, and this winter, some of them became more concrete. In December, the Arctic National WildlifeÃÂ ...
KTVA
February 5, 2018
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is reporting a spill at the Valdez Marine Terminal. According to a report from the DEC, the spill happened at the Berth 5, Valdez Marine Terminal; it appears to be less than 200 gallons of crude from the Alaska North Slope. "There was some spray toÃÂ ...
KTOO
February 5, 2018
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has reported a spill at the Valdez Marine Terminal. KTVA-TV reports that the department says the spill appears to be less than 200 gallons of crude oil from the Alaska North Slope. The spill was discovered Saturday morning by aÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
February 5, 2018
Why ConocoPhillips buying Anadarko Petroleum's stake in its Western North Slope Alaskan asset is a big deal. Conventional Alaskan oil production is very economical. After years of declining Alaskan production, ConocoPhillips posts two consecutive years of growth with room to run. Alaska representedÃÂ ...
Zacks.com
February 5, 2018
ConocoPhillips (COP - Free Report) recently struck two deals in Alaska. The company divested its Kenai liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to Andeavor (ANDV - Free Report) . In another deal, ConocoPhillips acquired stake in Western North Slope of Alaska from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APCÃÂ ...
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
February 4, 2018
The company's Alaska president, Joe Marushack, told a major business conference in Anchorage last week that he sees a possibility for up to ... ConocoPhillips' three new projects are in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a large 23-million-acre federal reserve on the western North Slope west of theÃÂ ...
Petroleum News
February 2, 2018
Petroleum News. ConocoPhillips said Feb. 1 in its quarterly earnings release that it has signed a definitive agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to acquire Anadarko's 22 percent nonoperated interest in the Western North Slope of Alaska, as well as its interest in the Alpine pipeline, for $400 million in cash, b.
U.S. News & World Report
February 2, 2018
9, 2016, file photo, ice forms on pipelines built near the Colville-Delta 5 field, or as it is more commonly known, CD5, drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. Five environmental groups sued the federal government Friday, claiming the Interior Department conducted a petroleum lease sale in northern AlaskaÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
January 31, 2018
Former Vice Chair Mark Springer of Bethel, who has the seat designated for rural Alaska, was voted unanimously as the new chairman, while Brandon Emmett, who holds one of two industry seats, was named vice chair. North Slope Borough Police Chief Travis Welch, who replaced Mlynarik, participated inÃÂ ...
KTOO
January 31, 2018
Oil and gas development on the North Slope represents “the largest industrial complex” in the state. In October, Gov. Bill Walker signed an administrative order to jump start a strategic climate change plan for Alaska. So, even though the agency has released carbon emissions reports before, this latest oneÃÂ ...
Alaskajournal.com
January 31, 2018
According to the state Revenue Department, Alaska North Slope crude sold for $70.57 per barrel when markets closed Jan. 29. That 54 cents per barrel extrapolates out to an additional $91 million per year to the state per year at current prices and production rates. Alper said the state can be expected toÃÂ ...
KUAC
January 30, 2018
Gov. Bill Walker says he's optimistic Alaska's economy will begin to rebound in 2018. He says there's a good chance that lawmakers will pass measures this year that'll set the state's budget on the path to solvency. And he's downright excited about three promising economic developments that suggestÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
January 28, 2018
It paid off. In 2015, average North Slope production was about 501,000 barrels daily. In 2016, that climbed to 514,000, then 526,000 in 2017, and it is estimated production will reach an average of 533, 000 barrels daily this year. In coming years, new fields coming online are expected to stabilize productionÃÂ ...
Petroleum News
January 26, 2018
Especially given the proximity of the Nenana basin to the road and rail corridor between Southcentral Alaska and Fairbanks, Doyon Ltd. sees the potential for a ... Moreover, it appears unlikely that Doyon would be able to sell gas at a viable price through a future gas export line from the North Slope, if thatÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
January 26, 2018
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A state laboratory is auditing two marijuana testing facilities in Alaska amid concerns with discrepancies in potency-testing results between the sites. ... Mlynarik, who held the board's public safety seat, has been replaced by North Slope Borough Police Chief Travis Welch.
Alaska Dispatch News
January 26, 2018
After passing over the three candidates suggested by the Alaska Democratic Party, Walker interviewed two more this week — Lincoln and Abel ... miles across northern Alaska, will continue to be represented by someone from Kotzebue in the Northwest Arctic region, rather than from the oil-rich North Slope.
