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Author: Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News

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Big questions emerge over $43 billion gas-export deal between Alaska and China

10 November 201710 November 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska Gasline Development Corp., Alaska LNG, Bank of China, China, Sinopec

Gov. Bill Walker on Wednesday heralded an agreement between Alaska and three Chinese entities to advance the state’s $43 billion

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Permafrost thaw prompts emergency orders from Alaska regulators over pipelines concerns

31 October 201731 October 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, BP, North Slope, pipelines

Concerned that thawing permafrost might contribute to another oil and gas leak such as the one that BP experienced in

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Oil & gas company says Alaska’s limited tax-credit payments thwarting drilling plans

27 October 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments

Another independent oil and gas company in Alaska is blaming the state’s scaled-back tax-credit payments for upsetting drilling plans. Furie

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Pumpjacks at work pumping crude oil near Halkirk, Alta., June 20, 2007. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press)
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After a long decline, Alaska expects third straight year of increased oil production

26 October 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska National Petroleum, Alaska Oil and Gas Division, Arctic, deficit, North Slope, oil production, workforce

Alaska producers have “outperformed” and are doing “more with less,” according to a presentation to lawmakers on Wednesday from the

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Oil field data worth millions of dollars is about to be made public by Alaska

5 September 20175 September 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, energy, fossil fuels, North Slope, oil exploration

The state is planning to release a trove of seismic data from oil exploration surveys as early as mid-September that cost

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Alaska rejects ExxonMobil plan to expand oil production in Arctic

1 September 20171 September 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, energy, fossil fuels, oil and gas

On Tuesday, the Walker administration denied a proposal by ExxonMobil Corp. to expand oil production at the Point Thomson field,

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U.S. transportation secretary announces efforts to speed up project development in Alaska

25 August 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Elaine Chao, Infrastructure, Kenai River, Sterling Highway, transportation

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, visiting Alaska for a two-day trip, announced measures on Thursday to streamline what she called

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Federal geologists to update oil potential in northern Alaska

22 August 201722 August 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, energy, fossil fuels, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

Spurred by a president who wants oil companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, federal geologists have begun poking

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Arctic Alaska oil field remains alive despite bankruptcy, isolation

21 August 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments North Slope, petroleum, pipeline, Umiat

The Umiat oil field, now with a new owner after the previous one went broke, remains as promising yet as

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Federal agency to investigate ‘avoidable’ plane crashes in Alaska

16 August 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Infrastructure, National Transportation Safety Board, planes, public safety, transportation

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a rare investigative hearing in Anchorage on Thursday to learn more about the

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Trump administration considers opening entire National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil leasing

8 August 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Donald Trump, energy, environment, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, oil

The Trump administration on Monday said the entirety of Alaska’s petroleum reserve, including the half that had previously been unavailable for leasing

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Mystery surrounds only oil well ever drilled in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

25 July 201727 July 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic oil, energy, fossil fuels, geology

With oil development advocates again emboldened by the prospects of cracking open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a big secret that

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Drilling from man-made island into Arctic Ocean approved by U.S. government

13 July 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Beaufort Sea, energy, fossil fuels, Prudhoe Bay

The Trump Administration Wednesday approved an oil company’s plans to explore for oil in federal territory of the U.S. Arctic

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The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer in a dock in Seattle in May 2015. The rig is the first of two drilling rigs Royal Dutch Shell has outfitting for Arctic oil exploration. (Elaine Thompson/File/AP)
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Alaska Native corporation plans to explore for oil in Arctic Ocean, where Shell failed

10 July 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Camden Bay, energy, fossil fuels, North Slope

A subsidiary of Alaska’s wealthiest regional Native corporation is moving ahead with plans to follow in the footsteps of Shell and

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Company delays drilling at Smith Bay, leaving a big Alaska energy prospect unconfirmed

14 June 201713 June 2017 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Caelus, energy, fossil fuels, North Slope

Awaiting payment of at least $75 million in state tax credits and facing a long-term downturn in oil prices, an

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