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APRIL 18, 2013

Development of unconventional energy resources in Alaska—including heavy oil and methane hydrates—could be accelerated under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

Every year, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) posts an Annual Crude Average carbon intensity calculation, using the the Oil Production Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimator (OPGEE) Model. Crude oil from California, Alaska and 11 countries account for 95% of the volume supplied to California in any given year.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Map of Arctic Alaska Province (outlined in black) showing boundaries of the platform and fold-and-thrust belt assessment units in red. Arctic Alaska Province. The Arctic Alaska Petroleum Province encompasses all lands and adjacent continental shelf areas (i.e., Source: USGS. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Concept of the Alaska Southcentral LNG Project. The partners in the Alaska Pipeline Project (APP)—ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP, and TransCanada— submitted a letter to Alaska Governor Sean Parnell describing their companies’ progress in advancing an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar outlined a proposed plan that will allow for additional access for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) while also protecting wildlife and coastal resources. Click to enlarge. The approximately 11.8 The approximately 11.8

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JULY 27, 2018

BP has agreed to acquire a portfolio of world-class unconventional oil and gas assets from BHP. The acquisition will bring BP extensive oil and gas production and resources in the liquids-rich regions of the Permian and Eagle Ford basins in Texas and in the Haynesville gas basin in Texas and Louisiana. 109,000 boe/d from Alaska.

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MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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JULY 11, 2010

The Department of the Interior (DOI) will hold a lease sale for oil and gas parcels in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) on 11 August, offering 190 tracts of land, totaling about 1.8 Currently, there are 310 authorized oil and gas leases totaling 3,026,633 acres in the NPR-A. million acres. Source: EIA.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

With its drilling window closing and a number of factors—the most recent being a damaged containment dome on its Arctic Challenger barge—creating delays, Royal Dutch Shell has decided to postpone drilling into hydrocarbon zones offshore Alaska this year. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

Key findings of the updated study include: Alaska, Spirit, Frontier, and Southwest Airlines remained the top four most fuel-efficient airlines on US domestic operations in 2014. On average, Alaska has operated the most efficient US domestic flights for five years running since 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Rosneft announced a major oil discovery at the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license area in the Kara Sea, following the successful completion of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world—the Universitetskaya-1 well. I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The Proposed Final Program offers 11 potential lease sales in four planning areas—10 sales in the portions of three Gulf of Mexico Program Areas that are not under moratorium and one sale off the coast of Alaska in the Cook Inlet Program Area. The vast majority of US offshore oil production occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

CIRI), an Alaska Native corporation, is proposing an underground coal gasification (UCG) project that would use the resulting syngas to fuel a new 100 MW combined cycle power plant. CIRI executives presented the plan to state lawmakers at a joint hearing in Alaska on Friday. Source: CIRI. Click to enlarge. Cook Inlet Region Inc.

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MARCH 25, 2012

The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (earlier post ) includes one potential special-interest lease sale in the Cook Inlet Planning Area (Sale 244). Currently, there are no active oil or gas exploration or development facilities in the federal waters there.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy; the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation; and ConocoPhillips will work together to test technologies for producing methane gas from hydrate deposits on the Alaska North Slope. The current test plans call for roughly 100 days of continuous operations from January to March 2012.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

s (Shell) Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea. Shell has committed to provide for the following emergency contingencies: the availability of a capping stack to shut off any flow of oil if other shut-off systems fail; the capability to capture and collect oil from that stack; and.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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MAY 11, 2018

An industry leader in the use of sustainable aviation biofuel, since 2011 Alaska Airlines has flown nearly 80 flights using sustainable aviation biofuel made of used cooking oil, forest residuals and non-edible, sustainable corn.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Rea of ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.; Streever of BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. Oil development has attracted populations of opportunistic predators including Arctic fox, ravens, and gulls, which feed on nesting birds. miles) from oil development remained unaffected by predators. Resources. Wildman of ABR, Inc; T.L.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. And the only way this transition will succeed is if it strengthens our economy in the short term and the long term.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released a new report evaluating how climate change may affect the environmental conditions measured and used in mathematical modeling for oil-spill trajectory analysis in the Arctic region. Study area used in the Oil Spill Risk Analysis for the Alaskan Arctic region.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Perspective by Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council. Oil is a strategic commodity second to none—it underlies the global economy and even the American way of life. Volatility hurts us too, for as we’ve learned the price of oil can rise sharply in a short period of time.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is seeking public comment on a newly released draft environmental impact statement describing how offshore oil and gas activities in the US Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days. Tell us about Westwater’s plans.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Our highest priority is to protect the American people, our sovereign territory and rights, and the natural resources and other interests of the United States. This entails promoting the development and deployment of available US energy resources such as wind, wave and solar.

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APRIL 14, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement for up to $20 million ( DE-FOA-0001023 ) for applications for selection and award in FY 2014 that focus on the (1) methane hydrate reservoir-response field experiments in Alaska; and (2) field programs for marine gas hydrate characterization.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Contrary to claims made by industry and government in the popular press, the oil sands industry substantially increases loadings of toxic PPE [priority pollutants] to the AR and its tributaries via air and water pathways. An open access article on their study was published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

The grant, one of the largest ever awarded to the university, will allow researchers to advance the scientific understanding of naturally occurring methane hydrate so that its resource potential and environmental implications can be fully understood. Accordingly, other countries with high energy demands or limited resources—e.g.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

SFO is positioning for increased interest in the California market for SAF producers and suppliers, given the additional incentives likely to be made available, through a California Air Resources Board ruling allowing the opt-in inclusion of SAF in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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AUGUST 9, 2014

An Environmental Impact Assessment, an Oil Spill Response Plan and other pieces of project documentation were developed and approved by regulatory authorities for the project to proceed. Its resources account to more than 1.3 billion tons of oil equivalent. —President Putin.

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MARCH 21, 2014

Staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted its calculation of the average 2012 annual carbon intensity of crudes supplied to California refineries. All crude oil produced in and offshore of California is assumed to be refined in California. Crude from the oil sands in Canada was headed by a carbon intensity of 24.49

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MAY 12, 2015

The EP describes all exploration activities planned by the operator, including the timing of these activities, information concerning drilling vessels, the location of each planned well, and actions to be taken to meet important safety and environmental standards and to protect workers, resources, wildlife and access to subsistence use areas.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

million acres of land and water in northeastern Alaska and is administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) as a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System). This area of the coastal plain, also known as the “1002 Area,” was opened to limited oil and gas exploration. Source: FWS. Click to enlarge. Background.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Pie chart showing mean estimates by the USGS of technically accessible storage resources (TA SR ) for CO 2 by region. Two other regions with significant storage capacity include the Alaska region and the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains region. National Assessment of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resources—Detailed Results.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Arctic Refuge), US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has authorized the cancellation of the remaining seven oil and gas leases issued by the previous administration in the Coastal Plain. Protections in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

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