The Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 582 on Jan. 31, up by six from the previous week, down by 37 from 619 a year ago and up six from two weeks ago. Over the last eight weeks the rig ...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas recently approved three pad expansions requested by ConocoPhillips Alaska, two at the Colville River unit and one at the Kuparuk ...

The Senate Resources Committee got an update Jan. 29 on the status of the state's carbon capture utilization and storage program, enacted into law by the Legislature in House Bill 50 in 2024. Haley ...

In a Jan. 24 interview with FOX News reporter Dana Perino, successful Alaska explorer Bill Armstrong talked about how he thinks President Donald J. Trump's energy policies will unlock Alaska's oil and ...

Frank Richards, president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., provided an update to the Alaska House Finance Committee Jan. 28 on AGDC's $44 billion Alaska LNG Project and on the corporation's ...

If blunt speaking is any indication the Alaska gas pipeline project is definitely moving forward. Pipeline and gas owners argued their cases in front of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance 'Meet ...

On Jan. 31, Derek Nottingham, director of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas, signed the approval of a proposed expansion of the Grey Owl unit, or GOU, that was ...

In a Jan. 30 meeting of the House Energy Committee Ed Jenkin, chief executive officer of the Railbelt Reliability Council and Lou Florence, chair of the organization's board, talked about the ...

In a Feb. 4 order the Regulatory Commission of Alaska denied a request from Anchorage based gas utility Enstar Natural Gas Co. to waive the normal statutory notice period for a tariff change, to ...

Alaska North Slope crude made a dramatic move upward to the high side of $75 Feb. 4, up $1.41 to close at $75.32 per barrel. West Texas intermediate fell 46 cents to close at $72.70 and Brent rose 24 ...

Natural gas production in Cook Inlet averaged 186,431 thousand cubic feet per day in December, down 3,879 mcf per day, 2.04%, from a November average of 190,311 mcf per day and down 12.48% from a ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Feb. 6, 2005, issue of Petroleum News. Just days before the partial results of a 2004 Wood Mackenzie study on the profitability of oil and gas regions ...