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...oil industry, however, is unclear. The Arctic is believed to hold up to a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves. Despite difficult operating conditions and high costs, the payback for Shell, Gazprom, Statoil and other companies...
ANCHORAGE - Undiscovered oil and gas reserves on federal lands on the North Slope are much larger than previously estimated, according to a government report released Thursday...
...reported. The Chukchi and Beaufort seas are considered likely to have some of northern Alaska's largest undiscovered oil and gas reserves. Buccaneer's competition, Escopeta Oil and Gas of Houston, plans to have a jack-up rig in Cook Inlet by April...
...Bay and the Alaska Peninsula, which is facing a crushing downturn in commercial fishing. The state has said that oil and gas reserves in the area are difficult to quantify without further drilling. The last onshore well was drilled in 1985. In...
...proposal and continued to hash out its terms with the three major oil companies who hold leases to the North Slope oil and gas reserves. Logging The U.S. Forest Service had to go back to the drawing boards in 2005 after an appellate court ruled...
...system. Both presidents expressed displeasure with U.S. activities in the Caspian Sea region, an area of huge oil and gas reserves. Iran and Russia border the Caspian, as do Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, formerly parts of the Soviet...
...Republican, said it could be a bonanza in the long term if the land selected contains high-value resources, such as oil and gas reserves or timber. ``The potential is huge,'' he said. The governor has vetoed past university land grant bills...
...that Gov. Murkowski followed up on most of these requests. In addition the governor is looking at the future for oil and gas reserves, coal, alternative energy systems such as wind and geothermal energy as well as nuclear power as alternatives...
...to the land and surrounding waters of the Queen Charlotte Islands, an area that includes billions of dollars in oil and gas reserves. Louise Mandell, the band's lawyer, said she believes it's the first time an aboriginal band has laid title...
The tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill should serve as a wake-up call for stronger oversight to prevent another such massive spill and a comprehensive national energy policy that must include more domestic oil and gas production. That's the message I'm delivering to the Obama administration and my fellow senators, and trying to implement legislation aimed at making sure new oil and gas development is done right.