U.S./Canada
News
November 30, 2017
A bid to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling faces a hold up over an arcane budget rule, a development that may mean it can鈥檛 be included in the tax overhaul legislation.
News
November 15, 2017
Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge took a significant step forward Wednesday, as the Senate energy committee approved legislation to compel lease sales in the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain along Alaska鈥檚 northeast coast -- tying it to tax reform.
News
November 03, 2017
Oil Search signed an agreement to acquire a number of oil assets in the Alaska North Slope from privately-owned companies Armstrong Energy LLC and GMT Exploration Company LLC.
News
October 18, 2017
Congressional Republicans have found a way to use the federal budget to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling -- and they don鈥檛 plan on stopping there.
News
October 17, 2017
Voice of the Arctic I帽upiat (VOICE) is deeply disappointed by today鈥檚 joint press conference, held by a half dozen democratic senators and several NGOs, pleading for permanent protection of the 1002 area of ANWR from oil and gas exploration.
News
September 29, 2017
Senate Republicans set the stage for using the budget to end the 37-year ban on oil and gas drilling in Alaska鈥檚 pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
News
September 27, 2017
Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan said he鈥檚 pushing for budget language that would make it easier for Congress to allow oil and gas drilling in part of the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.
News
August 18, 2017
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing the possible environmental impacts of the activities proposed in an offshore oil and gas development and production plan (DPP) submitted to BOEM by Hilcorp Alaska LLC. on Sept. 18, 2015.
News
June 22, 2017
Cook Inlet Lease Sale 244 -- the first lease sale held in Alaska鈥檚 federal waters since 2008 -- garnered $3,034,815 in high bids for 14 tracts covering roughly 76,615 acres in Cook Inlet, off south-central Alaska. All bids were submitted by Hilcorp Alaska LLC.
News
June 19, 2017
The BP-operated Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska has reached 40 years of production, a milestone highlighting its historic contribution to U.S. energy security and ongoing role as a key economic engine for the region and nation.
News
May 03, 2017
With the oil industry barely recovering from its most brutal slump in decades, you might expect the Arctic Ocean to be the last place explorers would hunt for new discoveries.
News
March 16, 2017
The Interior Department is weighing Eni SpA鈥檚 request to explore for oil in waters north of Alaska, giving the Trump administration a chance to reverse course from former President Barack Obama鈥檚 attempt to curtail Arctic drilling.
News
January 20, 2017
Far above the Arctic Circle, one of the longest-running controversies in U.S. oil drilling is about to reignite.
News
January 06, 2017
The Canadian government says it won鈥檛 grant extensions to exploration licenses for Exxon Mobil, BP and other oil firms as it prepares for consultations over the impact of an Arctic drilling moratorium.
News
December 23, 2016
Energy firms including Imperial Oil and BP will get a year of consultations to hash out the fate of their rights in Canada鈥檚 Arctic after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau鈥檚 drilling freeze set the stage for a dispute over license extensions.
News
December 19, 2016
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.
News
October 26, 2016
Obama Administration officials and former leaders of U.S. Armed Forces expressed support for Arctic oil and gas development at an Atlantic Council event on Geopolitics, Security, and Energy in the Arctic, sponsored by the Arctic Energy Center, yesterday afternoon.
Article
July 2016
It isn鈥檛 just about oil
News
July 08, 2016
Energy companies that hunt for crude in icy Arctic waters will have to stash extra equipment nearby and take other potentially costly steps meant to prevent oil spills in the fragile, remote region under regulations the Obama administration imposed Thursday.
News
July 01, 2016
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has underscored the criticality of oil and gas production in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to Alaska and the entire nation.