Editor's note: This story first appeared in the May 1, 2005, issue of Petroleum News. It's going to be historic, and the decision will be made soon, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski said April 27, 2005, ...

Enstar Natural Gas Co. has filed with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska for a rate increase. In prefiled testimony, Enstar President John Sims said RCA ordered Enstar to file a rate case in 2025 or ...

On April 17, Cook Inlet Energy's Chief Operating Officer David Pascal received approval for proposed plans of development for the West McArthur River and Redoubt units from Derek Nottingham, director ...

Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 587 on April 25, up by two from the previous week, down by 26 from 613 a year ago and down by four from two weeks ago. Over the last eight weeks the ...

Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas approved the assignment of the five North Fork unit leases from Vision Resources LLC to Hilcorp Alaska LLC on April 30. As reported in ...

Cook Inlet natural gas production averaged 198,755 thousand cubic feet per day in March, up 6,188 mcf per day, 3.21% from a February average of 192,567 mcf per day but down 3.35% from a March 2024 ...

Hilcorp Alaska is planning to bring new gas into production on the lower Kenai Peninsula. The company has applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas to install gas ...

The largest increase in North Slope oil production in March was from the Southern Miluveach unit, which averaged 216 barrels per day in March, compared to a February average of 12 bpd. The field is ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior said April 29 that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management would request information and comments on the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing ...

On April 24, APA Corp. and its partners Lagniappe Alaska LLC, an Armstrong company, and Oil Search (Alaska) LLC, a subsidiary of Santos Ltd., announced the results of a successful flow test of the ...

Alaska North Slope crude plunged $1.74 April 30 to close at $64.92 per barrel, West Texas Intermediate plummeted $2.21 to close at $58.21 and Brent dove $1.13 to close at $63.12 as price weakness ...

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to begin the process of developing a new schedule for oil and gas leasing in the federal outer continental ...