Oil field data worth millions of dollars is about to be made public by Alaska
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
On Tuesday, the Walker administration denied a proposal by ExxonMobil Corp. to expand oil production at the Point Thomson field,
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Federal geologists to update oil potential in northern 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
The Umiat oil field, now with a new owner after the previous one went broke, remains as promising yet as
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U.S. congressmen look for ways to open up Alaska’s natural resources
Alaska Rep. Don Young has spent the week guiding some of his fellow Republican members of Congress around some of
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Alaska’s largest newspaper files for bankruptcy; new publishers emerge
Alaska’s largest newspaper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Saturday evening and new owners have been lined up.
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Trump administration considers opening entire National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil leasing
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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King salmon from Alaska’s Yukon River briefly sold for first time in years
The first commercial sale of Yukon River king salmon meant steep prices for consumers and an outcry from subsistence fishermen, who
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Mystery surrounds only oil well ever drilled in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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
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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Blog: In the Arctic Ocean, an Alaska Native corporation seeks to fill void left by Shell
When Shell aborted its $7 billion Arctic drilling efforts in the Beaufort Sea in September 2015, environmentalists breathed a sigh
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Alaska Native corporation plans to explore for oil in Arctic Ocean, where Shell failed
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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U.S. Interior secretary’s new order aims to speed Alaska’s oil and gas permit process
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed an order Thursday that he said would help speed the permitting process for onshore drilling
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Blog: Explosions in the Arctic: mining gravel in Alaska
On the Fourth of July in the United States of America, fireworks and explosions galore. That means the time is ripe
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Trump administration launches plan to boost offshore oil development in Arctic and elsewhere
Less than two years after Royal Dutch Shell abandoned its offshore Arctic oil exploration program and triggered an exodus of other
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