Conoco sends up a new oil rig but Alaska production declines anyway
A new ConocoPhillips drilling rig — brought to the North Slope after the Legislature voted to slash taxes on Alaska’s
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Author: Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Is oil revenue-dependent Alaska headed for a market reckoning?
Oil moving west by train across the heart of the country and the shale-oil boom in Texas and North Dakota
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Silver lining to stormy warmth: Less chance of Anchorage winter gas shortage
A massive underground warehouse of natural gas — a potential emergency supply to protect Southcentral Alaska from a devastating gas
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Shell’s spill-response training in remote Alaska villages first step for new company
An impoverished group of Northwest Alaska villages whose residents hunt walrus and seals to survive have banded together to form
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Nikiski edges out Valdez and other Alaska gasline terminal hopefuls
The three largest oil corporations doing business in Alaska and a Canadian pipeline builder are now looking to acquire
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Global cooling? London newspapers ignite controversy over Arctic climate change
The kerfuffle over climate change is heating up anew thanks to relatively cooler temperatures atop the globe that have resulted
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Company squeezes more from a once-dead Alaska oil field
Another newcomer to Cook Inlet’s oil and gas fields has boosted production after rehabilitating old wells with aggressive drilling techniques.
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Rural Alaska school saviors honored with scholarships
Two brothers who helped raise money to keep their village school open are among seven youth to win scholarships under
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U.S. interior secretary to spend night in ANWR
New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is headed to Alaska to spend a night in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the
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Gray whale baby boom holding strong despite persistent sea ice in 2012
It’s apparently a good year to be a gray whale, despite menacing killer whales and the persistent sea ice around much
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If the Arctic booms, will Alaska’s workforce be ready?
As some of the world’s polar nations race to develop the melting Arctic, Alaska isn’t doing enough to prepare for
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Dinosaurs: paleontologist puts Alaska on map
Long before tourists traipsed around Denali National Park there were dinosaurs, thousands of them, including a sickle-toed pack hunter who
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Civilian drones set to take flight over Arctic Alaska
Coming soon to an Arctic air space near you: The nation’s first commercial drone flights. Billed by federal regulators as
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Alaska North Slope crude squeezed at refineries as shale oil flows west
Will the Midwest oil boom squeeze Alaska North Slope crude out of its West Coast refineries, forcing down its price
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Energy experts to discuss Alaska issues this week
Issues that could change Alaska’s course in the next few years will take center stage at an annual meeting of
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