On Feb. 4 the Regulatory Commission of Alaska opened a docket to gather information about plans for implementing liquefied natural gas import terminals at Nikiski on the coast of the Kenai Peninsula.

Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 551 on Feb. 13, unchanged from the previous week and down 37 from 588 a year ago. The domestic rig count has ranged from the 530s through the 550s ...

House Bill 271, indefinitely extending the 3% royalty rate approved by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources in 2025 for the Kitchen Lights unit in Cook Inlet, had its first hearing in the House ...

Rig 26's first well on the North Slope of Alaska was the Fiord West satellite CD2-310 well, completed in 2022. The big ERD rig, dubbed the "Beast" because of its immense size, drilled CD2-310 into the ...

In 2025, ConocoPhillips Alaska incurred an estimated $1.3 billion in taxes and royalties, including $1 billion to the State of Alaska and nearly $300 million to the federal government. ConocoPhillips ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Feb. 26, 2006, issue of Petroleum News. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued the permit for development of Kerr-McGee's Nikaitchuq oil and gas ...

On Feb. 12 the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas notified ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., or CPAI, by certified mail that the company's Nov. 26 application for the fifth ...

During a Feb. 11 Legislative Lunch and Learn session Ed Jenkin, chief executive officer of the Railbelt Reliability Council, talked to state lawmakers about the RRC approach to the regional planning ...

On Feb. 9 the plaintiffs in an Alaska District Court case in which 15 states had challenged the legality of plans to hold oil and gas lease sales in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife ...

Levi Frampton, president of Doyon Energy Services, is listed as the applicant for Doyon Oil Field Services in the Feb. 13 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District public notice. Doyon Oil Field ...

Hilcorp has drilled 192 wells in Cook Inlet since it came to the region in 2011 and plans 27 wells this year -- all gas wells -- the most since it drilled 28 wells in 2014.

Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 551 on Feb. 6, up by five from the previous week and down 35 from 586 a year ago. The domestic rig count has ranged from the 530s through the 550s ...