Lawsuit Targets Cursory Federal Assessment of ConocoPhillips’ Plan for Drilling in Alaska Petroleum Reserve ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Native Village of Nuiqsut tribal government and five conservation groups have challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter exploratory drilling program in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, America’s single largest area of public lands. […]
Glennallen, Alaska – Tolsona Oil & Gas Exploration LLC, an Ahtna, Inc. subsidiary, has begun mobilization of the Tolsona No.1 gas exploration well rig. The drilling program is starting two weeks later than planned to await availability of the rig. The 2 million pound drill rig, required materials and rolling stock equipment is being transported […]
Disappointed by the results of their Burger J exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea, Royal Dutch Shell announced that they will not be exploring for oil in Alaska for the “foreseeable future,” they said in a statement. Shell said on Monday, that they had “found indications of oil and gas in the Burger J well, but […]