The Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 619 the week ending April 19, up by two rigs from 617 the previous week, and down by 133 from 732 a year ago, following a drop of three rigs last ...

A third party engineering firm sees "a lot of upside potential for natural gas behind pipe and elsewhere" in the West Cook Inlet Nicolai Creek unit, which has been operated by Amaroq Resources for 7 ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the April 25, 2004, issue of Petroleum News. Unocal Alaska is drilling a fifth natural gas well at its Happy Valley pad in the Deep Creek unit southeast of ...

Glacier Oil and Gas, owner of Badami operator Savant Alaska, has been considering a second pad at the unit, which is on the east side of the North Slope between Point Thomson and Prudhoe. But when ...

The Department of Natural Resources' Division of Mining, Land and Water said in an April 19 North Slope off-road travel status report that both eastern and western coastal areas remain open. The ...

With less than a month remaining in this legislative session, bills related to energy -- specifically the impending Cook Inlet natural gas shortage -- and the governor's geothermal bill from last ...

Lagniappe is a Cajun word that loosely translates into "little something extra" or "a good unexpected surprise" -- apropos for the Nanushuk play on the North Slope, which Armstrong and a partner first ...

North Slope crude shed 38 cents April 24 to close at $88 per barrel, squeaking out a Wednesday-to-Wednesday gain of 8 cents from its close of $87.92 April 17. West Texas Intermediate slid 55 cents to ...

The federal Bureau of Land Management has published a final version of its revised regulations for the management of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in the northwestern sector of ...