Native Alaskans and environmental groups are asking a federal court to block the Trump administration from selling oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Bloomberg) — Native Alaskans Continue Reading
An animation showing the extent of Arctic sea ice from this year’s maximum, on March 5, to this year’s minimum, on Sept. 15, with the 30-year average minimum in yellow. Continue Reading
JP Morgan. Citi. Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs. All of these banks have announced they will no longer finance oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic, virtue signaling to environmental Continue Reading
The Trump administration is racing against legal deadlines and a merciless regulatory calendar in its last-ditch effort to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before President-elect Joe Continue Reading
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) approved on Friday a ban on the use of heavy fuel oil for ships in the Arctic, but environmental organizations slammed the new regulation as Continue Reading
A group of investment firms, conservationists and indigenous groups have called on some of the world’s biggest insurers to cease supporting oil and gas projects in the U.S. Arctic National Continue Reading
A polar bear walks across rubble ice in the Alaska portion of the southern Beaufort Sea. (Mike Lockhart/USGS/AP) The Trump administration is asking oil and gas firms to pick spots Continue Reading
The Trump administration is advancing plans to auction drilling rights in the U.S. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has vowed to block oil Continue Reading
The Trump Administration will take key steps to finalize a sale of oil drilling leases in the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska just before Democrat Joseph Biden, Continue Reading
The Bureau of Land Management approved a ConocoPhillips-led oil exploration project in Alaska, which could yield some 160,000 barrels of crude daily when it becomes operational, the BLM said . Continue Reading
Highlights Election uncertainties could cause delays BLM might be weighing how to integrate new lands Nanushuk formation extends to possible acreage Anchorage — Two Alaska North Slope lease sales normally Continue Reading
A top official at the Interior Department has delayed the release of a study that shows how oil and gas drilling in Alaska could encroach upon the territory of polar Continue Reading
This summer’s Arctic sea-ice shrank to its second lowest ever extent in the era of satellite observation. The floes withdrew to just under 3.74 million sq km (1.44 million sq Continue Reading
Shell Offshore Inc. has submitted plans to plans to drill for oil in the waters along the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in the coming years. The Dutch oil industry giant applied Continue Reading
The group of 15 Democrat-led states alleges the plan fails to account for danger to wildlife and climate-change impacts. (Bloomberg) — A group of 15 Democrat-led states sued to block Continue Reading
The Arctic has experienced the worst fire season on record for the second year in a row, with giant wildfires sending over one third more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere Continue Reading
Environmentalists and Alaska natives are challenging the Trump administration’s decision to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, arguing the government gave short shrift to the impact on polar Continue Reading
Living on a heating planet always comes with some ironies. For one thing, the people who are most to blame for global warming (the rich and powerful) are also shielded Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to issue decades-long leases in the Continue Reading
The Trump Administration is set to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling for the first time by approving a drilling program on Monday, U.S. Secretary Continue Reading
A stocky blue 980-foot-long tanker named Christophe de Margerie sailed from Russia’s far-north Yamal Peninsula to the Bering Strait near Alaska in May, two months before such ships usually pass Continue Reading
There’s a standard image of the Earth as seen from space that we carry in our heads: vast blue seas, green bands of forests, and frozen white caps on the Continue Reading
A researcher uses a spectroradiometer to measure the amount of sunlight reflected from the surface of ice and melt ponds in the Chukchi Sea. Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen The thickening atmospheric Continue Reading
Central now to Russia’s hydrocarbons-related power is its Arctic sector oil and gas reserves. These comprise over 35,700 billion cubic metres of natural gas and over 2,300 million metric tons Continue Reading
The vast Arctic Siberia region, already warming faster than the rest of the world, experienced record heat and fires for the second straight year in June, adding to concerns of climate scientists. Average land temperatures last Continue Reading
The vast Arctic Siberia region, already warming faster than the rest of the world, experienced record heat and fires for the second straight year in June, adding to concerns of climate scientists. Average land temperatures last Continue Reading
Wildfires that have raged in the Arctic Circle since early spring led to a record spike in pollution from the infernos last month. Arctic fires emitted 16.3 million metric tons Continue Reading
Alexander Deyev can still taste the smoke from last year’s wildfires that blanketed the towns near his home in southeastern Siberia, and he is dreading their return. “It just felt Continue Reading
In parts of Alaska, beaver activity is hastening the regional thawing of the permafrost, releasing long-trapped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Credit: Steve Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaskan beavers Continue Reading
The US Department of the Interior will open 7 million acres of additional Alaska lands to oil and natural gas leasing in a plan released June 25. Receive daily email Continue Reading
The Trump administration proposed on Thursday to open more than two-thirds of the nation’s largest piece of public land to oil and gas drilling, removing wildlife protections for the Alaskan tract Continue Reading
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved this week the construction and operation of the Alaska LNG project estimated at US$43 billion, which has been years in the planning Continue Reading
Drilling in the Arctic has been back in the headlines this week with some fresh controversy. The Trump administration has long seen the development of oil and gas assets in Continue Reading
BP said on Monday it had amended financial terms of the $5.6 billion sale of its Alaska business to privately held Hilcorp Energy Co following the recent slump in oil Continue Reading
The latest front in the war against drilling for oil in Alaska’s rugged wildlife refuge isn’t Washington — it’s Wall Street. Activists trying to keep rigs out of the Arctic National Continue Reading
ConocoPhillips suspends drilling Possible 12-18 month price slump, company says Oil Search halts work on Pikka early development Anchorage — Alaska North Slope operators have announced spending cuts and delayed Continue Reading
A Russian move to size up offshore oil and gas potential in the Antarctic may not signal the start of a rush to develop the world’s last great wilderness, but Continue Reading
In the context of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies, Russia’s number two gas producer (after state-owned Gazprom), Novatek, has always been seen as being unusually reliable in terms of Continue Reading
Despite climate concerns and environmentalist backlash against exploration for oil and gas in pristine sensitive regions of the Arctic, companies continue to explore for hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic Circle, Continue Reading
Oil-industry base camp at Galbraith Lake, in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. An updated assessment estimates 3.6 billion bbl of oil and 8.9 tcf of natural gas are technically Continue Reading
The rapid decline of Arctic sea ice during the last couple of decades has spurred climate scientists to study how that meltdown influences the rest of the planet, and a Continue Reading
Despite a world awash in liquefied natural gas, Alaska is still working on its $40 billion-plus Alaska LNG project, which if built could deliver 20 million mt/year of LNG to Continue Reading
North Slope producers have a full plate of projects in 2020 and beyond as companies speed the development of new discoveries. More new finds are coming, too. Receive daily email Continue Reading
Unless the remaining days of December surprise us with a world-beating hydrocarbon discovery, 2019 will go down as one of the weakest years on record in terms of new oil Continue Reading
Goldman Sachs will decline financing for new Arctic oil exploration and production and for new thermal coal mine development or strip mining in its updated environmental policy which makes the Continue Reading
Decrease to 434,300 b/d seen by fiscal 2024 New projects expected to push production back up Small North Slope oil price declines seen in near term Anchorage, Alaska — Alaska’s Continue Reading
China and Russia could deepen their energy cooperation as Beijing is interested in working with Russia to develop nuclear power and wind power projects in the Arctic region, Sputnik reported Continue Reading
It’s been well over a year since the then-United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis accused Russia and China of being “revisionist powers” each working its way toward making a Continue Reading
The NSR runs close to the Arctic Circle from the Russian Far East to the Baltic Sea and is typically open from July to November. Russia is promoting the lane Continue Reading
The U.S. Interior Department is determined to sell oil leases for the first time this year in the ecologically sensitive but presumably petroleum-rich coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Continue Reading
