Tim Bradner

Tim Bradner: Gas storage project gets first winter of operation

Able to keep your house warm during that long, December cold snap? Send a thank you note to state Rep. Mike Hawker, House Speaker Mike Chenault and other Southcentral legislators.

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TIM BRADNER

BRADNER: Time to take a look at Alaska's oil tax credits (12/16/12)

Legislators and others following state budget and revenue numbers got a bit of a shock last week when the Department of Revenue released its annual fall state revenue and oil production forecast. The bottom line is that we'll see a $2 billion decline in oil revenues from 2012 to 2014.
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Tim Bradner: Alaska's oil decline leads us toward quagmire

Alaska has its own version of a fiscal cliff and, it seems, our own version of political paralysis over doing anything about it. The cliff isn't as dramatic as the one facing Congress and President Barack Obama -- ours is more of a steep slope -- but it is actually more economically damaging to ...
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Tim Bradner: Southcentral faces running short of natural gas

The natural gas supply situation in Southcentral Alaska is anything but secure. True, we have people drilling exploration wells in Cook Inlet. We also have a natural gas storage project now constructed and being filled with gas to cushion our supplies this winter.
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Cost of heating fuel has Fairbanks, Bush hurting

Most people in Anchorage have little feel for the utter pain and financial hardship being caused by high fuel oil prices in Fairbanks and rural Alaska. We're comforted here by quite reasonable natural gas prices, though we may yet get our comeuppance -- we may run of natural gas. More about ...
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Good oil times are ending, so what can we do?

We've reached a dubious milestone in our state's history. For the first time, Alaska's revenues will turn down mainly because of the continued decline in oil production and not because of some wobble in oil prices.
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Cheap imported fuel is reason to fear for our refineries

When you fill up at the gas station, do you ever wonder where the gasoline comes from? Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, California? You probably don't care, being outraged about the price on the pump. But you should.
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Shorter, smaller gas line might serve Alaskans better

North Slope oil and gas producers are now focused on a large- diameter pipeline to a south Alaska port and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant, thanks to Gov. Sean Parnell's initiatives. By the end of September, the companies are due to submit a plan to Parnell laying out how they will...
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Settlement provides fresh start on LNG project

Gov. Sean Parnell deserves a pat on the back for bringing to closure the contentious Point Thomson gas field lawsuits. Those were big clouds hanging over a major North Slope gas project. Point Thomson has almost one-fourth of the gas reserves on the Slope, and resolving uncertainties over its...
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Volume limit is hobbling our gas line project

An interesting project now in advanced planning is the effort by the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, to build an "in-state" natural gas pipeline from the North Slope.
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January strained gas supplies but help's coming

Things are still interesting on the natural gas front. We made it through a very cold January with no gas supply problems, but barely. Enstar Natural Gas Co. told me it was worried on one or two of the coldest days. We're not out of the woods yet, because we could still see another cold snap...