...a 50-mile range of the Donlin Creek gold development project. James Hansen, lease sales manager for the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, told Petroleum News that the 19,840 acres requested by Holitna Energy for leasing are in a seven-mile...

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...is going to be a conventional gas play they are looking for," said James Hansen, leasing officer with the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas. The identity of the applicant is confidential at this point, Hansen said, because the state must solicit...

...Federation Vice President and former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Jamie Clark; former Alaska Division of Oil and Gas Director Ken Boyd; and Trustees for Alaska attorney Peter Van Tuyn.

...the gas. Instead, the charges would be figured based on the contracts Agrium signs with its suppliers. The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas estimates the proposal could cost the state treasury $11.5 million in foregone revenue over the next six...

...sources within known fields, then you have to talk about heavy oil," said Paskvan, D-Fairbanks. The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas reports heavy oil production accounts for about 6.5 percent of this year's production on the North Slope...

State officials have reached an accord with the Bristol Bay Native Corp. over the prospects of opening the first lease sale in the region in more than a decade. "We think the prospects are as bright here as anywhere in the state regarding oil and gas," said Gov. Frank Murkowski. The state Department of Natural Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bristol Bay Native Corp., which owns 3.1 million acres in the region on behalf of more than 7,000 shareholders.

...state's leases by delaying development for the past 28 years, according to division Director Mark Myers at the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas. "Therefore, the 22nd (plan of development) is unacceptable," Myers said in a written statement after...

...contributed to preparing lease details in two years rather than the usual three, said Mark Myers, director of the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas. The communities want local energy supplies and a stimulus to the economy, he said. Gov. Frank Murkowski...