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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online bidding for spring state areawide oil and gas lease sales will begin May 20 and close June 6, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas said in an April 22 notice of ...

Armstrong discovers Brookian topset oil plays 65 miles to east. Kay Cashman. Petroleum News. In 2013, Armstrong Oil & Gas Inc., along with its partner Repsol, ki ...

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 ...

In most places viscous oil equals heavy oil, but that isn't the case on the North Slope, where the term viscous is a better fit than heavy for the shallower, colder crude oil BP and ConocoPhillips are ...

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According to drilling data published by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 46 development wells were completed on the North Slope in 2023. That compares with 71 completions in 2022 and 91 ...