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Per an Oct. 21, 2022, order of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, on May 31 counsel for Oil Search (USA) Inc. sent RCA copies of the final approval of the right-a-way lease for the Pikka Sales Oil Pipeline that the company had received from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. (See map in...

Editor�s note: This story appeared in the June 1, 2003, issue of Petroleum News Alaska. Total is in Alaska because the company wants to grow in the United States, the company�s Alaska area manager, Jack Bergeron, told the Alaska Support Industry Alliance May 22, 2003. Formerly known as TotalFi...

The Christy Lee platform in Cook Inlet no longer functions as an oil transfer point but has a possible future in wind or tidal power � or it may be removed. Hilcorp subsidiary Harvest Alaska has applied for a lease renewal � and a lease contraction � for the lease on which the Christy Lee pla...

The Baker Hughes

The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved tariff changes for two North Slope pipelines - Milne Point and Point Thomson - both operated by Harvest Alaska, a subsidiary of Hilcorp. A big increase per-barrel shipped, from $7.86 to $12.49, was approved June 1 by RCA for the Point Thomson pipelin...

The Alaska State Assessment Review Board has partially supported the Alaska Department of Revenues 2023 property tax assessment for the Point Thomson unit while requiring adjustments in two areas. Revenues assessment of $1.25 billion was appealed by the North Slope Borough, which argued for an asse...

The Baker Hughes

Alaska North Slope production averaged 482,310 barrels per day in April, down 2,629 bpd, 0.5%, from a March average of 484,939 bpd and down 1.7% from an April 2022 average of 490,741 bpd. Crude averaged 426,014 bpd, 88.3% of the total, down 538 bpd, 0.1%, from an April average of 426,551 bpd and dow...

"Beginning in 1957 with the historic oil discoveries at Swanson River, and the Prudhoe Bay discovery following shortly thereafter in 1968, Alaska established itself as the petrostate it is known for today. Alaska has managed its resource development processes responsibly through strict environmental...

Shell Offshore Inc., operator and 100% working interest owner of the nearshore West Harrison Bay unit, has made it clear that while it is not interested in operating in Alaska, neither does it appear to be interested in relinquishing the 81,000-acre unit that lies so close to major Nanushuk formatio...