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Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry No current Pretty Creek gas production Hilcorp has increased production at Ivan River, another west side field, and is looking at ways to restore Pretty Creek production Kristen Nelson Petroleum News Pretty Creek, one of Hilcorp Alaska’s three small west side natural gas fields, last produced in 2019, the company said in the 43rd plan of development for the Pretty Creek unit, a revised version of which was submitted to the ...

A bullish supply disruption fear trade has given way to caution. A massive, marooned container ship, sideways and blocking the Suez Canal, was refloated March 29, making way for oil cargoes and other freight to traverse the vital waterway. The NASA Earth Observatory said its satellite imagery showed...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry February ANS production flat from January At average 504,460 bpd, down 3.4% from February 2020; Cook Inlet production also flat from January, but down 22% year-over-year Kristen Nelson Petroleum News Alaska North Slope production averaged 504,460 barrels per day in February, up 382 bpd, 0.1%, from a January average of 504,078 bpd and down 3.4% from a February 2020 average of 522,421 bpd. Crude oil was 88.4% of the ANS total...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Looking for natural gas, not oil in Alaska Explorers magazine preview: Gardes aims to produce, sell natural gas, a clean burning fuel, plus build gas powered infrastructure Kay Cashman Petroleum News Bob Gardes of Lafayette, Louisiana, entered Alaska last year with the three-fold purpose of becoming a natural gas producer by acquiring bypassed and/or underdeveloped gas deposits in the Cook Inlet basin, securing off-take comm...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Court finds determination on tug noise arbitrary and capricious Kristen Nelson Petroleum News In a March 30 decision U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service mitigation and monitoring measures for seismic surveying in Cook Inlet but found arbitrary and capricious the agency’s determination that noise from tugs towing a drilling rig would not cause ta....     [additional news sub...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Hope for Canada’s Arctic Partnership files plan with regulators to convert Mackenzie Delta gas to LNG Gary Park Petroleum News It’s been the classic case of a line from the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner — “water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” With some of the world’s richest oil and natural gas deposits on their doorstep, it has been a mystery and a source of deep frustration to communities in Canada’s Fa...

Moodys upgrades credit ratings of three Serbian cities Downtnown Belgrade; Author: Bobik at Serbian Wikipedia; License: CC BY-SA 3.0 BELGRADE (Serbia), March 17 (SeeNews) - Moodys Investors Service said that it has upgraded the long-term issuer ratings of the Serbian cities of Belgrade, Novi Sad and Valjevo, following the upgrade of Serbias sovereign rating to Ba2 from Ba3 with a stable outlook. "Moodys Public Sector Europe has today upgraded to Ba2 from Ba3 the long-term issu...

Man fined $5k for selling endangered sharks he kept in pool FacebookTwitterEmail A Dutchess County man will pay a $5,000 fine to settle criminal charges that he violated environmental laws when he kept seven sandbar sharks in a pool and planned to sell them. (Times Union archive)Karlin, Rick ALBANY — A Dutchess County man will pay a $5,000 fine to settle criminal charges that he violated environmental laws when he kept seven sandbar sharks in a pool and planned to sell them. Joshua Seguine be...

Vermont asks public to report lake "ice outs" March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation is asking Vermonters to report when lakes and ponds are completely free of ice so that scientists can start their spring water quality sampling. The so-called “ice-out" data also helps scientists track the effects of climate change in the state, the department said. “We try to sample lakes within seven to 10 days of ice-out, because ...

Hiker found dead near top of Hunter Mountain Taken down steep trail by sled Sunday night FacebookTwitterEmail The Hunter Mountain fire tower observers cabin as seen from the fire tower. (Herb Terns / Times Union) HUNTER -- State forest rangers on Sunday recovered the body of a dead hiker found near the top of Hunter Mountain in the Catskills, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. DEC dispatchers got a call at 1:30 p.m. reporting that an unresponsive man was on the Becker Ho...