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Outside AGIA, ConocoPhillips takes pipeline plan on tour
December 6
ConocoPhillips wants to start negotiating a natural gas contract with the state before the end of the year, company executives said Wednesday.
The negotiations would be the first step in what the company believes is the “fastest way to a pipeline,” according to Brian Wenzel, vice president of Alaska North Slope Gas Commercialization for ConocoPhillips Alaska. If ConocoPhillips received legislative approval during the upcoming regular session, the company believes it can start field work on a pipeline by next summer and finish pipeline construction by 2018.
But ConocoPhillips is competing against four other natural gas pipeline applications submitted through the process outlined in the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, or AGIA, created by the same government officials with whom ConocoPhillips hopes to negotiate. Full story »
- Little-known AGIA applicant has eyed project for decades December 5
- MidAmerican explains decision to not bid on Alaska pipeline December 3
- Four bid for pipeline under AGIA; Conoco makes separate pitch November 30
- ConocoPhillips proposes Alaska pipeline November 30
- BP pleads guilty to environmental crime in Alaska spill November 29
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Congress cuts off Darfur
December 18, 3:13 pm
The U.S. House passed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act today, which prohibits the federal government from working with companies that fuel the conflict in Darfur and allows state governments to do the same without worrying about lawsuits. Full story »
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Oil and gas 101
Find valuable background information to understanding the debate about Alaska and its oil and gas in our Oil and gas 101 section.
Lessons (2007)
- Palin faces challenge to get new oil tax passed
- What does Alaska get out of oil tax proposal?
- ACES oil tax plan to get detailed look
Lessons (2006)
- The gas agreement: the promise of a pipeline
- The gas agreement: reading between the lines
- Deconstructing the Stranded Gas Act
- Uncertainty built into state oil forecast
- How much is Slope oil production declining?
- So what’s the big deal about the oil tax?
- Oil tax debate, for now, has more questions than answers
- What’s wrong with Alaska’s current oil tax?
Recent comments
01/24/2008
In my opinion the State of AK. needs to settle on a fixed tariff/tax on the NG pipe line for 25-30 years. Without this fixed rate I think we will not …
12/26/2007
I also would be highly interested in AEnergia since I was involved with the original oil and gas pipelines. On the oil pipeline from 1972 to 1978 for …
12/03/2007
The MidAmerican CEO Sokol's letter sounded more like an unfocused rant than a CEO letter. I hope we learn how their vision of the project fell apart…