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4:36 The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation held a four-hour meeting online Wednesday evening to speak with Cohoes residents about the Norlite incinerator, the subject of ongoing environmental concerns. Norlite has been the focus of public scrutiny over the past year after it emerged the plant was burning PFAS-laden firefighting foam for the U.S. Defense Department. In November, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to ban such burning at the plant, which is loc...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Oil patch insider: ConocoPhillips AK gets new pres., nearly $400M capex, slice of $5.1B Kay Cashman Petroleum News As announced in November, on Feb. 1 there was a change in leadership at ConocoPhillips Alaska with President Joe Marushack retiring and being replaced by Erec Isaacson, who has been with ConocoPhillips for 35 years, including a four-year stint in Alaska. Other news from ConocoPhillips came on Feb. 2....     ...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry ANS charts steady course Steve Sutherlin Petroleum News Alaska North Slope crude slid 23 cents Jan. 27 to close at $55.53 per barrel. West Texas Intermediate rose 24 cents to close at $52.85, and Brent lost 10 cents to close at $55.81. The major indexes remained steady, closing near the prices seen a week prior, despite fears early in the week about new COVID-19 breakouts in China, and reports that the Chinese government is ...

Natural gas production in Cook Inlet averaged 225,968 thousand cubic feet per day in December, down 1,068 mcf, 0.5%, from a November average of 227,036 mcf per day, but up 6.1% from a December 2019 average of 212,927 mcf per day. Data are from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which r...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry AOGCC fines AIX $30,000 at Kenai Loop Kristen Nelson Petroleum News The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission issued an order Jan. 25, fining AIX Energy LLC $30,000 for failure to maintain a functional subsurface safety valve on the KL1-1 well at the Kenai Loop gas field. The commission said it issued a notice of proposed enforcement action to the company Dec..... You must be logged in to view this story. Please either...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Alaska wildcatter Jim White dies: fierce property rights defender Steve Sutherlin Petroleum News James (Jim) Wynn White, independent oilman and Alaskan wildcatter, died Jan. 22 in Houston, Texas, at the age of 90. White was owner of Alaskan Crude Corp. White moved his family to Kenai, Alaska, in 1968, working first for Unocal at its new fertilizer plant in Nikiski, before setting out into various business ventures in the Ke...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Sidebar: State approves Badami expansion ERIC LIDJI for Petroleum News Reprinted from the March 24, 2013 issue of Petroleum News The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has agreed to expand the Badami unit to include portions of two leases overlying the East Mikkelsen oil prospect but will not include an additional five leases also requested for expansion by two le....     [additional news subjects in this story] Sma...

Although Oil Search prefers to bring in another partner before sanctioning Pikka development at the end of 2021, it is not a requirement for moving ahead with construction of the North Slope oil field, a company official told Petroleum News after being asked whether moving forward with Pikka phase 1...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry RCA still working on ERO governance Complications over how to ensure balanced board structure are raising legal issues and delaying completion of draft regulations Alan Bailey for Petroleum News Complications in resolving how the Regulatory Commission of Alaska can develop regulations that would ensure balance in the board of an electric reliability organization are continuing to further delay the completion of draft regulat...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Conditional ROWs proposed for LNG Project Alaska Department of Natural Resources has analysis, proposed decision, out for public comment for 2 ROW leases for state lands Kristen Nelson Petroleum News The Alaska Department of Natural Resources is requesting public comment on an analysis and proposed decision by DNR Commissioner Corri Feige on two right-of-way lease applications from the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. The le...