gas lease ADL 393574. In a Dec. 26 decision, Nottingham said applications were received Nov. 10 to transfer working interests in the lease from J. Andrew Bachner and Keith C. Forsgren to Samuel H.

The Resource Development Council of Alaska, or RDC, has a new executive director, Connor Hajdukovich. He assumed the position of Jan. 1, 2006. Hajdukovich has served as RDC's interim executive ...

Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 546 on Dec. 30, up one from the previous week. The domestic rig count has ranged from the 530s through the 550s since the beginning of June. For 2025, ...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas has approved an operator change for the Prudhoe Bay unit. In a Dec. 22 approval, division Director Derek Nottingham said the ...

On Dec. 23 Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas approved Hilcorp Alaska's 2026 plan of development for the North Fork gas field in the southern Kenai Peninsula. In the plan Hilcorp commits to drill one ...

On Dec. 22 the Bureau of Land Management announced the approval of the environmental assessment for its revised version of the integrated activity plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The ...

On Dec. 24 the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas approved the 2026 Pikka Unit Plan of Development, or POD. On Oct. 31, the Division of Oil and Gas had received the ...

Natural gas production in Cook Inlet averaged 210,730 thousand cubic feet per day in November, down 1.06%, 2,263 mcf per day, from an October average of 212,993 mcf per day but up 10.73% from a ...

There have been several court filings in a case in the Alaska District Court, in which three environmental organizations have challenged the legality of the exploration activities that ConocoPhillips ...

Alaska North Slope crude plunged $1.03 Jan. 6 to close at $61.57 per barrel as traders pondered the U. S. invasion of Venezuela in terms of its potential to add to world supplies under U.S. management ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Dec. 25, 2005, issue of Petroleum News On Dec. 17 Mike Menge, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, announced DNR had decided that ...

Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas has approved Furie Operating Alaska's 12th plan of development for the Kitchen Lights Unit, offshore in the Cook Inlet. However, the approval is conditional on Furie ...