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MAY 1, 2011

Under van Wijk’s concept, a plant would produce methanol from natural gas on the North Slope using the proposed GigaMethanol technology. If the entire daily output of North Slope gas (4.5 Atlas uses Lurgi’s MegaMethanol technology, which allows the cost-effective production of methanol from natural gas. Source: EMRE.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 , which makes more than 75% of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources estimated in federal offshore areas available for exploration and development. Alaska program areas.

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APRIL 10, 2013

ConocoPhillips will put its 2014 Alaska Chukchi Sea exploration drilling plans on hold given what it called “the uncertainties of evolving federal regulatory requirements and operational permitting standards. —Trond-Erik Johansen, President, ConocoPhillips Alaska.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

BP has agreed to sell its entire business in Alaska to Hilcorp Alaska, based in Anchorage, Alaska. The sale will include BP’s entire upstream and midstream business in the state, including BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., that owns all of BP’s upstream oil and gas interests in Alaska, and BP Pipelines (Alaska) Inc.’s

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Concept of the Alaska Southcentral LNG Project. The partners in the Alaska Pipeline Project (APP)—ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP, and TransCanada— submitted a letter to Alaska Governor Sean Parnell describing their companies’ progress in advancing an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project.

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JULY 11, 2010

The Department of the Interior (DOI) will hold a lease sale for oil and gas parcels in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) on 11 August, offering 190 tracts of land, totaling about 1.8 Currently, there are 310 authorized oil and gas leases totaling 3,026,633 acres in the NPR-A. million acres. Source: EIA.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing comprehensive new regulations to reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry—including, for the first time, reductions from existing sources nationwide. Source: EPA. billion a year.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar outlined a proposed plan that will allow for additional access for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) while also protecting wildlife and coastal resources. trillion cubic feet of discovered and undiscovered economically recoverable natural gas.

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Linc Energy Ltd has acquired the grant of 181,414 acres of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) coal exploration licences in Alaska from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority following a competitive bidding process. We have known for a long time that Alaska, and the Cook Inlet Basin in particular, holds significant coal deposits.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips and TransCanada have selected a site in the Nikiski area on the Kenai Peninsula as the lead site for the proposed Alaska LNG project''s natural gas liquefaction plant and terminal. Earlier post.). —Steve Butt, senior project manager. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 25, 2012

The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (earlier post ) includes one potential special-interest lease sale in the Cook Inlet Planning Area (Sale 244). The publication of this RFI does not indicate a decision to lease in the Cook Inlet Planning Area.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Alaska Airlines will fly 75 commercial passenger flights in the United States powered by a biofuel blend, starting this Wednesday. Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, will continue to operate select flights between Seattle and the two cities over the next few weeks using a 20% blend of renewable biofuel.

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

for Arctic oil and gas exploration. The permit authorizes air pollutant emissions during Shell’s exploration drilling with the Kulluk drill rig and a support fleet of icebreakers, oil spill response vessels, and supply ships for up to 120 days each year. On 19 Sept. Earlier post.). On 26 Sept.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

CIRI), an Alaska Native corporation, is proposing an underground coal gasification (UCG) project that would use the resulting syngas to fuel a new 100 MW combined cycle power plant. The syngas could also be upgraded to synthetic natural gas or synthetic liquid fuels. comparable to natural gas. Source: CIRI. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is seeking public comment on a newly released draft environmental impact statement describing how offshore oil and gas activities in the US Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Responding to new oil and gas industry opportunities, Foss Maritime Company will build the first three tugs in an. Foss says the new tugs will position it to compete for opportunities in the oil and gas industry. Several oil and gas customers are. gas exploration in to areas with little or no infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Biden Administration and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland have canceled seven oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, along with protecting 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Australia-based underground coal gasification (UCG) specialist Linc Energy Limited has spudded its first gas exploration well (LEA #1) on its oil and gas leases located in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska. The well has been designed to target a number of stacked gas objectives whilst intersecting regional coal measures.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. To fail to recognize this reality would be a mistake. Secretary Salazar.

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JUNE 2, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US Department of the Interior suspends oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. more… The post EGEB: Biden administration freezes oil, gas leases in Alaska wildlife refuge appeared first on Electrek.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

EPA Region 10 has issued final air quality permits to Shell for oil and gas exploration drilling in the Alaska Arctic. EPA Region 10 proposed the draft permits for public comment on 6 July 2011 and held informational meetings and a public hearing in Barrow, Alaska on 3 and 4 August 2011.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy; the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation; and ConocoPhillips will work together to test technologies for producing methane gas from hydrate deposits on the Alaska North Slope. Methane hydrate consists of molecules of natural gas trapped in an open rigid framework of water molecules.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Oil is a strategic commodity second to none—it underlies the global economy and even the American way of life. Of course, other countries benefit from this fact, with about $900 million flowing out of the US to buy foreign oil every day, and about 40% of that going to OPEC. [ Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Natural gas. Energy source. Geothermal.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

With its drilling window closing and a number of factors—the most recent being a damaged containment dome on its Arctic Challenger barge—creating delays, Royal Dutch Shell has decided to postpone drilling into hydrocarbon zones offshore Alaska this year. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

s (Shell) Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea. Shell has committed to provide for the following emergency contingencies: the availability of a capping stack to shut off any flow of oil if other shut-off systems fail; the capability to capture and collect oil from that stack; and.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Based on recent discoveries, the IHS Markit Plays and Basins: Alaska North Slope (ANS) Basin; Resurgence in an Arrested, Late-emerging Super Basin analysis estimates that the ANS Basin offers 38 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in remaining recoverable resources (50 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas, and 28 billion barrels of oil).

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MAY 29, 2009

Map of the assessment units (AUs) of the CARA is color-coded for mean estimated undiscovered oil. The US Geological Survey (USGS) has completed a geologically-based assessment of the oil and gas resource potential of the Arctic, the Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (CARA). Black lines indicate AU boundaries. Source: USGS CARA.

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MARCH 1, 2009

US Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced legislation that would allow the use of advanced directional drilling to tap the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) coastal plain. million acre coastal plain while still tapping into ANWR to increase domestic production of oil and gas. The bill, co-sponsored by Sen.

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APRIL 18, 2013

Development of unconventional energy resources in Alaska—including heavy oil and methane hydrates—could be accelerated under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Rea of ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.; Streever of BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. Oil development has attracted populations of opportunistic predators including Arctic fox, ravens, and gulls, which feed on nesting birds. miles) from oil development remained unaffected by predators. Wildman of ABR, Inc; T.L. McDonald, D.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Rosneft announced a major oil discovery at the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license area in the Kara Sea, following the successful completion of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world—the Universitetskaya-1 well. I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Shell announced on Monday that it will cease further exploration activity in offshore Alaska for the foreseeable future. The balance sheet carrying value of Shell’s Alaska position is approximately $3.0 The Burger J well is approximately 150 miles (241 km) from Barrow, Alaska, in about 150 feet (46 meters) of water.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. California. 1,000-1,200. 250 – 900.

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JULY 27, 2018

BP has agreed to acquire a portfolio of world-class unconventional oil and gas assets from BHP. The acquisition will bring BP extensive oil and gas production and resources in the liquids-rich regions of the Permian and Eagle Ford basins in Texas and in the Haynesville gas basin in Texas and Louisiana. billion boe.

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