An alliance of four energy companies has updated plans for a multi-billion dollar, ten-year liquefied natural gas megaproject that would take gas from Alaska’s North Slope for shipment to Asia through the oil port at Valdez. Three of the companies, Exxon Mobile, … Continue reading
Alaska Governor Governor Sean Parnell met with the chief executive officers from BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil on January 5, 2012, to discuss alignment between the three companies on commercializing the North Slope’s vast natural gas reserves. A news release … Continue reading
Energy Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers? by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica, Sep. 1, 2011, 4:12 p.m. ET Natural gas–often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy–has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with U.S. … Continue reading
Environment Link A study by the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is reporting that microbes, mostly bacteria, but also archaea (single cell organisms without a cell nucleus) and fungi, played key roles in mitigating both the Exxon Valdez oil spill … Continue reading
Vancouver Sun No real need for pipeline between oilsands and West Coast: bureaucrat A multi-billion dollar pipeline project that would link the oilsands region to the coast of British Columbia offers new export capacity that the Canadian industry does not … Continue reading
Anchorage Daily News Column by Paul Jenkins Time for Alaska, Big Oil to lay gas line cards on the table It is time for TransCanada, Exxon and the state to lay their cards on the table; time to tell Alaskans … Continue reading
Bloomberg BP, ConocoPhillips Halt Proposed $35 Billion Alaska Gas-Pipeline Project BP Plc and ConocoPhillips dropped plans for a $35 billion Alaska natural-gas pipeline, once proposed to be the largest private construction project in U.S. history, because they didn’t get enough … Continue reading
