Energy

Power cooperative, BP sign natural gas deal

Golden Valley Electric Association has agreed on a contract with BP to purchase North Slope natural gas.

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OIL AND GAS

Coalition pushes cuts in state oil taxes

The election-season oil-tax debate is getting noisier, with another coalition -- this one saying it's nonpartisan -- hitting the airwaves with commercials urging voters to pay close attention to the issue and push candidates for tax reductions on oil production.
ALASKA SENATE

State senators note absence of vouchers for heating fuel

Two Democratic state senators from Fairbanks held a press conference Monday to tell Alaskans what will not be attached to their Alaska Permanent Fund checks this year -- a voucher worth 250 gallons of heating fuel.
ALASKA SENATE

Senate panel looks at rising fuel costs

With winter on its way in Alaska's Interior, members of the Senate Energy Working Group met in Fairbanks to discuss the issue of rising heating costs.
OIL AND GAS

Shell begins drilling in the Chukchi Sea

On a drilling ship 70 miles from land in the Chukchi Sea, Shell Alaska began drilling early Sunday morning at its Burger prospect. It's the start of what the company has planned for and fought over the past six years: drilling offshore in Alaska.
OIL AND GAS

Shell Oil seeks additional time for drilling in Chukchi Sea

With summer slipping away and the window for its Alaska drilling plans beginning to close, Shell Oil Co. has asked federal regulators to extend the drilling season in the Chukchi Sea by a couple of weeks.
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI

Murkowski ends 'energy tour'

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Monday wrapped up an "energy tour" of Alaska with Democratic colleague Ron Wyden of Oregon that included a renewable energy fair, a geothermal plant at Chena Hot Springs, and an offshore oil platform in Cook Inlet.
OIL AND GAS

Shell drilling rig Kulluk under tow toward Beaufort Sea

One of Shell Oil Co.'s drilling rigs left Dutch Harbor on Monday morning, headed to the Beaufort Sea in anticipation of being able to drill an exploration well this year.
ENERGY

Murkowski touts Asia as market for North Slope natural gas

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Wednesday that the best hope for a market for North Slope natural gas may be Japan or other Asian countries.
ENERGY

Idea to convert North Slope gas into electricity gains listeners

An idea studied years ago by an oil company for producing vast stores of North Slope natural gas without building a giant pipeline has emerged again, this time before state legislators trying to find relief for residents crushed by heating and electricity costs.
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI

Murkowski and Hoeven tour oil fields and feds' legacy wells

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski took one of her Republican colleagues on a tour this weekend of Alaska's northern oil fields and of federally owned wells still awaiting cleanup by the Bureau of Land Management decades after they were drilled and abandoned.